Empathy Quote by Charles Bock

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

— Jennifer Haigh

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

— Paul Haggis

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

— Erin Gruwell

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

— Jonathan Tropper

I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.

— Elizabeth Berg

Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

— Barack Obama

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

— Richard Flanagan

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

— Andrew Sean Greer

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

— Rumaan Alam

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

— Eitan Levy

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