Complex Quote by Daniel Tammet

I think that fiction has this special responsibility or this special ability to help people to empathize, to demand of people that they understand…

— Ben H. Winters

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in…

— Dan Chaon

I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.

— Wally Lamb

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

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

— Karen Russell

my experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I find there.

— Marion Dane Bauer

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

I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I read about…

— Jim Shepard

“This paying attention is the foundational act of empathy, of listening, of seeing, of imagining experiences other than one's own, of getting out of…

— Rebecca Solnit

“the Times reported last week that reading literary fiction increases one’s empathy and emotional intelligence.”

— Kelly Luce

I was in love with the idea of love, so I created elaborate fictions for my relationships - fictions that allowed me to believe…

— Roxane Gay

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

— Jennifer Haigh