Ability Quote by Alex Flinn

I always like it when writers posit writing as an act of empathy. It's such a grand turn of phrase, such a noble ideal;…

— Rumaan Alam

I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.

— Jonathan Tropper

The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.

— Charles Bock

Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.

— Erin Gruwell

I think empathy's a terrible danger for a writer.

— Richard Flanagan

I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a…

— Meryl Streep

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.

— Paul Haggis

“Empathy, the way that we can place ourselves, imaginatively, in the position of another person, is at the heart of what we do as…

— Brenda Walker

If writing really is empathy, then understanding your place in society might actually help you achieve it.

— Rumaan Alam

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

— Barbara Kingsolver

When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes…

— George R. R. Martin