People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.
I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections.
Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.
I don't read fiction at all.
If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people who are different from us.
I don't generally read a lot of fiction.
When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.
I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.
The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.
People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.
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