Character Quote by Michael Eric Dyson

Writers are given the responsibility of sight. I think that the whole burden, responsibility and beauty of the gift forces us to construct our…

— Alexis De Veaux

We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.

— Henry James

Yeah, I think it's like any God-given gift. You writers have the gift of perception. If you don't use it, you're going to lose…

— Vera Farmiga

You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“One of the great gifts of fiction is that it asks us to stretch our empathy.”

— Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us,…

— Wallace Shawn

“It is the importance of this quality of generosity in fiction that requires a measure of childishness in the writer. People who have strong…

— John Gardner

Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will…

— Andrew O'Hagan

“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through their eyes.…

— Neil Gaiman

“Good writers don’t moralize, nor do they preach, but they do create longing for the true and the beautiful.”

— Douglas Bond

I feel like it's a gift for any writer to be recognized like this.

— Tracy K. Smith

“Science journalism’s express goal was to hang over the writer’s mind a veil so opaque that the reader would mistake the writer’s thoughts about…

— Amanda Gefter