Book Quote by Nikki Giovanni

“Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book,…

— Nikki Giovanni

Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at least the…

— Zachary Schomburg

I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.

— Jonathan Tropper

The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.

— Charles Bock

Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.

— Erin Gruwell

“writing is a sustained act of empathy.”

— Andre Dubois

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.

— Wallace Stevens

I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a…

— Meryl Streep

I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected to and…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

— Mohsin Hamid

If writing really is empathy, then understanding your place in society might actually help you achieve it.

— Rumaan Alam