Books Quote by Brenda Walker

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and its accessible to all of us, but we have to give…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Empathy is, first of all, an act of imagination, a storyteller's art”

— Anonymous

“The human route to sympathy or empathy is a clumsy one but it's all we've got. To understand the consequences of our actions we…

— Anonymous

“Empathy is when you use your imagination to expand your ability to feel compassion for people in situations beyond those you have experienced, maybe…

— Kelsey Crowe

“The stories and pictures I make for the lives of the people closest to me are the forms of my empathy.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“Reading entails empathy, a sort of “trying on” of being another person for a while.”

— Tat Wood

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

— Mohsin Hamid

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

— Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

“Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person. It has both emotional and cognitive aspects, involving…

— Jacqui Stedmon

“Understanding breeds empathy.”

— Christopher Paolini

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

— Charles Bock