Challenges Quote by Hugh Howey

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

— Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

“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

“Once in a while, when reality is too painful to bear, fiction can help us to restore the fragility of our human condition.”

— Frances Stead Stellers

Fiction is empathy technology.

— Steven Pinker

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

— Joe Mynhardt

“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 can, and should, mimic life, with all its messes and discomfort and disquiet. Fiction should also prove just how complicated and troubled many…

— Anonymous

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

— Andrew Sean Greer

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

The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and…

— Tim O'Brien

We all create fictions to hide our pain

— Anonymous

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

— Eitan Levy