Barbara Kingsolver Quotes About Empathy

Quotes about: Empathy

• Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Eye, Empathy, Looks

  "A life in writing" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

• Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Pain

• Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Empathy, Fiction, Stranger

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

  Barbara Kingsolver

  People, Empathy, Literature

  "A life in writing" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

• the novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you - to live inside another person's skin. It creates empathy. And that's the antidote to bigotry. The novel doesn't just tell you about another life, which is what a newspaper would do. It makes you live another life, inhabit another perspective. And that's very important.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Perspective, Empathy, Political

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