Empathy Quote by Rumaan Alam

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

— Erin Gruwell

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

— Charles Bock

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

“writing is a sustained act of empathy.”

— Andre Dubois

Writing is weaponized empathy. It's putting yourself in someone else's head. It's finding what's in them that relates to you.

— Tom King

Empathy is a skill like any other human skill - and if you get a chance to practice, you can get better at it.

— Simon Baron-Cohen

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The more empathy you have and the more connected you are to society, the better off you'll be.

— Jasmila Zbanic

I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you’re somehow able to look at that…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served…

— Alex Flinn

We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.

— Bill Drayton

Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about…

— Kafu Nagai