Writing Quote by Francine Prose

“We only see what interests us, and we have only insight in proportion to our sympathy.”

— Anonymous

“We are the observers, and our writing makes us witnesses to what we have seen and learned about the human condition.”

— Heather Ormsby

“Identification is why the reader reads and why the writer writes. We all want to identify with a character, so that we can, in…

— Jerry Cleaver

“A tragedy is still a tragedy; pain is still pain, even if some insight is gained in the process. We”

— Kelly M Kapic

“People like to identify with characters in danger.”

— Rob Parnell

“And it is, by the way, from the presence of others that we really derive support in our dark hours of grief, and not…

— H. Rider Haggard

“Sympathy the human species universally craves.”

— Dale Carnegie

“for that which is a disgrace to human nature, throws something of a shade over all the human character, and each individual feels his…

— Thomas Paine

“Writers help summon people to a vision of human betterment...They create an awareness not just to things as they are, but as they ought…

— Lilian Gafni

“Writers by nature are subversive, observant, and discerning, and their voice contains that.”

— Amy Tan

“Our wounds are not a measure of one individual’s sad fate, but an indication of our unity with others.”

— Lynn C. Tolson

“These are the prejudices which I undertook to notice here. If any others of a similar character remain, they can easily be rectified with…

— Baruch Spinoza