Books Quote by William Empson

When we read a literary work (or, in some instances, listen to music) our imagination is stimulated, we feel various emotions, and we arrive…

— Philip Kitcher

If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't…

— Yann Martel

All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.

— Felice Picano

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or…

— Dorothea Brande

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Unlike other books or TV shows or sometimes life, my narrative worlds are stripped of implicit moral centers. There is only what you bring.…

— Chris Abani

“The highest form of morality is not to feel at home in ones own home." Most great works of the imagination were meant to…

— azar Nafisi

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

— Andrew Sean Greer

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

— Daniel Craig

Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others

— William Gibson

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

— Cynthia Ozick