“Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.” HumansChallengesHuman BeingsFictionTeachingEmpathySkinsMiracle Author:Hugh Howey
“Regarding fiction, our concern shouldn't be the author's origin (and of course I am forgetting the sales people right here), because that is actually merely a simplified, almost insulting judgment of the book by its cover - or rather by the name and origin of its author - an act of discrimination if we want to say it in a more provoking way, but at the least an act of ignorance and false empathy.” PeopleIfsWayWantBookCoursesNamesForgetFictionIgnoranceJudgmentEmpathyConcernDiscriminationProvokingInsultingSales People Author:Sasa Stanisic
“Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.” LooksPersonsEyeAsksFictionNovelEmpathyThrough The EyesAnother Life Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.” FictionEmpathyStrangerEssaysTheoretical Author:Barbara Kingsolver