Broadening Perception Quotes

“I can hardly conceive of how limited my perception would be without the books I have been privileged to read, how superficial my understanding of others, how underdeveloped my sympathies. And I mean here, especially, without fiction, which pus flesh and blood on, and soul and feeling in, other human beings. Precisely because of its appeal to my imagination, which -Webster's- dictionary defines as 'the act or power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses or never before wholly perceived in reality,' in fiction I come to know and understand people I may not have met otherwise. And thus I am persuaded to a more compassionate, generous, and loving response in my life beyond books.”
― Nancy M. Malone, Walking a Literary Labyrinth