Anthropologists Quote by Lily King

Can fiction teach us? Absolutely. Fiction has the power to illustrate place, era, and atmosphere in vivid detail. But it is not Anthropology for…

— Celeste Ng

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

— Clifford Geertz

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a…

— Richard Powers

I don't get on with novelists, don't enjoy their company. Once you've worked for a publisher, you understand the species, see them in their…

— Neil Cross

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

— Flannery O'Connor

Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner…

— Susan Sontag

“As a general rule, I surmise that most fictional stories are populated by misfits, changelings, and oddities, which is what makes the writing interesting…

— Todd Crawshaw

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may…

— Ernest Hemingway

I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathing, or feeding, or sex. And…

— A. S. Byatt

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been…

— Clifford Geertz

“It doesn’t matter that these are works of fiction and hence less scientific than the numbers and reports. They describe a human experience and…

— Christian Madsbjerg

“I like authors who experiment with narrative and delve into very specific conditions within their characters in order to expose universal truths about humanity.…

— Amanda Knox