“For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and sorrow. If animals did have voices, and they could speak with the tongues of angels-at the very least with the tongues of angels-they would be unable to save themselves from us. What good would language do? Their mysterious otherness has not saved them, nor have their beautiful songs and coats and skins and shells and eyes.” IfsGivingWould BeEyeBeautifulSongSpeakLanguageFeltVoiceAnimalCenturyPoetReaderSorrowEmpathyAngelSkinsTongueSavedMysteriousShellsCoatsOtherness Book:Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals Source: Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals
“Are You Seeing Me? is written powerfully with both the heart and the head, and neither gives an inch. It's funny, moving and hugely insightful. Darren Groth puts the reader into the heads of Perry and Justine in a way that feels so true and so revealing that I think I've come away with a greater capacity for empathy. I didn't know a book could do that. We all need to spend some time inside this story.” ThinkingKnowsWayNeedsGivingFeelsHeartBookStoriesMovingGreaterWrittenSeeingReaderEmpathyCapacityInsightfulInchesRevealingDarrenJustine Author:Nick Earls
“If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense of understanding and empathy, and hopefully, something has been illuminated for you. And I tink that's what happendd for a lot of readers with my novels.” IfsFeelsHas BeensCharacterUnderstandingWalksNovelReaderEmpathyHopefullyPlight Author:Khaled Hosseini
“When you talk about a reader being emotionally moved, a feeling of empathy, I think that comes out of that line-by-line respect for reader. That's actually where it all comes from.” ThinkingFeelingsLinesReaderEmpathyMoved Author:George Saunders
“If a character is honest with a reader, then (hopefully) that will engage the reader's empathy centers; she'll meet that openness with acceptance, and they'll forge a nourishing and meaningful bond as the book continues.” IfsBookCharacterHonestAcceptanceReaderEmpathyMeaningfulHopefullyOpenness Author:Joshua Mohr
“Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.” LongMatterCharacterStoriesStyleReaderEmpathyNo Matter WhatGenreInvolvementVariationEmpathetic Author:Dean Koontz