Empathy Quote by Eitan Levy

It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a…

— John Grisham

“Good fiction is trawling back into the past and digging up the real characters who've influenced your entire being.”

— Ken Scott

“Fiction writing is art. It therefore, has few mathematical or scientific limits to its evolution. The writer must always push forward, experiment, and strive…

— Ron Gavalik

Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view.…

— Daniel Tammet

“An imaginary circle of empathy is drawn by each person. It circumscribes the person at some distance, and corresponds to those things in the…

— Jaron Lanier

“Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view.”

— Daniel Tammet Thinking in Numbers How Maths Illuminates Our Lives

“The other problem with empathy is that it is too parochial to serve as a force for a universal consideration of people’s interests. Mirror…

— Steven Pinker

“Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about.”

— Sanhita Baruah

“I write fiction not for my readers and not for myself. I write fiction for the sake of those odd heroic characters that are…

— Nicholas Trandahl

“She knew this day was different and worse, much worse than before. This was the day that Bethany began to believe their lies. And…

— Katie Hubbard

“Some very eminent critics writing in the decades immediately after the novel's publication felt that Eliot failed to maintain sufficient critical distance in her…

— Rebecca Mead

“Sometimes people who look different from you are scary. Maybe they are ugly. Maybe they are loud. Maybe they are big. Maybe they are…

— Jeff Hutchins