Create Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

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

— Jennifer Haigh

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

— Andrew Sean Greer

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction is empathy technology.

— Steven Pinker

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

— Charles Bock

“Empathy is something you must create when the hero is introduced. Making your hero a victim in the middle of the movie or showing…

— Michael Hauge

“Good fiction can help us to expand our circle of empathy to include people unlike ourselves.- R' Eitan Levy”

— Eitan Levy

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

“One of the great gifts of fiction is that it asks us to stretch our empathy.”

— Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

— Justin Simien

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

— Hugh Howey

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

— Richard Flanagan