Books Quote by Sinclair Lewis Download Open image “People read fiction for emotion-not information” — Sinclair Lewis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Emotion Fiction Information People
I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction. — Diana Ossana Copy Share Image
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight into human… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not to say… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when I read, it's not just fiction while I'm between the pages. It’s real. My heart races when they kiss, and I get… — Emma Hart 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
What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues, illuminating and making glad again the dark… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“He had expected that traditionally Republican Vermont would give him too drearily easy a task in preaching Trowbridge. What he found was a dismaying… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Day on day he waited. So much of a revolution for so many people is nothing but waiting. That is one reason why tourists… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“She continued it to Hugh, 'Darling, do you know what mother and you are going to find beyond the blue horizon rim?' 'What?' flatly.… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years? — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“I think perhaps we want a more conscientious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of always deferring hope to… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty.” — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Like all males, he hated to confess ignorance by asking directions,” — Sinclair Lewis 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
