Able Quote by Catherine Brady

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

— Erin Gruwell

Empathy is a skill like any other human skill - and if you get a chance to practice, you can get better at it.

— Simon Baron-Cohen

Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging them.

— Donald Margulies

Empathy is the wellspring of creativity.

— Ami Vitale

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about…

— Kafu Nagai

“writing is a sustained act of empathy.”

— Andre Dubois

Writing is weaponized empathy. It's putting yourself in someone else's head. It's finding what's in them that relates to you.

— Tom King

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

— Anonymous

Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And…

— John Green

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

— Paul Haggis

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

— Charles Bock