Human life Quote by Noam Chomsky

Scientists do what writers do. They also live with an active interiority, only the ongoing speculation in their heads is about relations in the…

— Vivian Gornick

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

— Thomas Szasz

The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to…

— Siri Hustvedt

I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - the study of the human condition -…

— Charles Stross

It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?

— John Money

We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?

— Edith Wharton

“And thinking about this, which I have done so much, I discover that I come around, by a back door, to another of the…

— Doris Lessing

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition,…

— Ralph Ellison

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

— Monica Johnson

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

— Elizabeth Drew

One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting truths lie.

— Francine du Plessix Gray

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to…

— Orson Scott Card