Empathy Quote by Siri Hustvedt

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

— Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

“Sometimes I get advice from the fictional characters in my dreams. Sometimes It’s good, and sometimes it’s nonsensical.”

— Jarod Kintz

“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

“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.”

— Neil Gaiman

“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned for the…

— Tom Rachman

“Fiction is a great combination between experience and imagination.”

— Desi Puspitasari

“Fiction is the best the self-help book.”

— Quinn Barrett

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

— Eitan Levy

“Do you have any advice for your readers? Lead the life that’s yours instead of faking someone else’s.”

— sandy nathan

“Empathy. Carlin always said it was the great value of fiction, to put us inside the minds of strangers.”

— Erika Johansen

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

— Andrew Sean Greer

“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