Empathy Quote by Eitan Levy

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

— Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

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

— Kelly Luce

“Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from their perspective.”

— Annie Murphy Paul

“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through their eyes.…

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Charles Bock

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

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

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

— Andrew Sean Greer

“Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it moves people's hearts as well…

— Ian Leslie

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

— Hugh Howey