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I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.

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 me well as a writer.

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

I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.

We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.

It doesn't hurt to show some empathy.