Books Quote by Ronald Sukenick Download Open image “People read fiction... to learn something about how to live their lives.” — Ronald Sukenick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Fiction Inspirational Love People
We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Because reading is a way of putting yourself in someone else's experience, especially reading fiction. — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people. — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
Fiction is a place where people can meet, where they take the time to very seriously examine and think about the experiences of other… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale,… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea. — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
The law of mosaics: how to deal with parts in the absence of wholes. — Ronald Sukenick Copy Share Image
If you don't use your own imagination, somebody else is going to use it for you. — Ronald Sukenick Copy Share Image
The big picture is that there is no big picture. That's why we keep painting it. — Ronald Sukenick Copy Share Image
“Use your imagination," I tell my students these days, "or someone else is going to use it for you.” — Ronald Sukenick Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
