Act Quote by Andrew Sean Greer

Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.

— Jennifer Haigh

Fiction is empathy technology.

— Steven Pinker

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification,

— Marilynne Robinson

Steven Pinker says, the invention of printing and the widespread appearance of fiction - this taught empathy. If you read a novel, you're in…

— Martin Amis

“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through their eyes.…

— Neil Gaiman

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic…

— Ann Patchett

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

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

— Wally Lamb

One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

— Marilynne Robinson