Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have to deal with.
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One of the main reasons I write fiction is to try to understand what life is like for people other than myself, to try to see the world through my characters' eyes. I often find that I'm able to understand certain emotional truths about my own life by exploring things from different vantages.
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through.
Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.
Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me. Books saved me. So, I do believe through stories we can learn to change, we can learn to empathize and be more connected with the universe and with humanity.
I was in love with the idea of love, so I created elaborate fictions for my relationships - fictions that allowed me to believe that what any given paramour and I shared looked a lot like love.
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.
I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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