Connections Quote by Neil Gaiman

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

— Theodore Sturgeon

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic…

— Ann Patchett

I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.

— Anthony Doerr

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

— Fay Weldon

Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why…

— Kathleen Rooney

For us, the playground of fiction is just as important as reality

— Ryohgo Narita

Fiction is socially meaningful.

— David Guterson

Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life…

— Varley O'Connor

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.

— Neil Gaiman

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

— Karen Russell

I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a…

— Aldous Huxley

The great thing about fiction is that everything you care about ends up going into the book.

— Peter Heller