Empathy Quote by Erika Johansen

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

— Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

“The stories and pictures I make for the lives of the people closest to me are the forms of my empathy.”

— Siri Hustvedt

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

— Eitan Levy

“Fictions enable us to cooperate better.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“those who do read fiction are better able to understand the emotions of others.”

— Terry Marselle

“I think that the best fiction is directly rooted in an ability to identify and tell the psychological truth about people.”

— Alistair Cross

“Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“The advice is a call to empathy, the ultimate act of the imagination, and the true ground of all fiction.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“I was one to fall for strangers, to live in fiction more than reality. I had created a perfect romantic and mysterious character for…

— Gaia B. Amman

“Fiction should always challenge what you believe in, and make you think hard about what it is to be a human being.”

— Joe Mynhardt

“I would probably have to say that reading fiction — those stories fill the space that other people might use religious stories for. The…

— Tom Perrotta

“Life might be stranger than fiction, but fiction allows many writers to more accurately portray life to their readers.”

— Jaime Buckley