Books Quote by Sue Monk Kidd

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

— Barbara Kingsolver

A novel is not an allegory.... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with…

— Azar Nafisi

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.

— Henning Mankell

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel…

— Ann Patchett

These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes…

— Ray Bradbury

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be…

— Diane Johnson

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

“A novel is not an allegory, I said as the period was about to come to an end. It is the sensual experience of…

— Azar Nafisi

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

— Andrew Sean Greer

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

— Edwidge Danticat

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

— Sarah Dessen

“It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience...For that reason, reading a novel is potentially a significant…

— Don DeLillo