Business Quote by Joe Mynhardt

“An author has to fit into the skin of her characters, to imagine being trapped by unfortunate and sometimes violent circumstances she herself has…

— Loretta H. Marion

“Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconcile, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“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

“And yet, for a writer of fiction, part of the heart remains that of a stranger, for what we are trying to do is…

— Margaret Laurence

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

— Andrew Sean Greer

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.

— Paul Haggis

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

— Orhan Pamuk

“A good fiction writer can write any character or any story that she wants to write. The importance, IMO, is a burning desire to…

— Suzanne Brockmann

One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

— Marilynne Robinson

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do…

— Sufjan Stevens

Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.

— Jennifer Haigh

“To be a decent writer you must have both empathy and imagination. While these attributes aid your art, they can plague your soul. You…

— M.J. Rose