Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

Paul Theroux

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Theroux

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kingsolver

Epitaph on an Unfortunate Artist

He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits:

This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid,

So, in the end, he could not change the tragic habits

This formula for drawing comic rabbits made.

Robert Graves

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves