Quotes About Empathy

If your depiction of loss doesn't make the reader feel loss, then you didn't depict it right.

I'm a very senses-oriented person, and I want to bring readers in on the level of the senses, so they can experience another culture and another place.

Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.

I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to write. But at the same time, I feel that writers are, of course, writing for their readers, too.

A lot of readers want characters to behave in a responsible way, or they want to understand the characters' dilemma and act, in a way, on their behalf.

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

Remember, if you don't feel passionate about the characters and subject of your story, your readers won't either.

There are many people who say, 'I write for myself.' I think that if you write and publish, then you write for your readers, not just for yourself. Many writers say that they write to be loved. I place myself among those writers.

What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

I have readers tell me that I must be bored, but that's not true. I am never bored with the characters. I like them.

I just try to write the best story I can, a story I would love to read, and hope that readers feel the same.

I believe that if writers want their readers to care about a character, they have to care themselves. I have to root for a detective who screws up as much as Thorne does, who shares my birthday, my North London stomping ground, and my love of country music, both alt and cheesy.

Readers, like writers, are essentially amoral. Arm's length will never do. We want to get closer.

I think that young readers have very strong stomachs.

The connection that readers have to 'Rookie' has only meant more and more to me as I get older.

I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.

I can't understand why people so readily put themselves up to be humiliated.

Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.

We all identify with the people we see, and in a good documentary, we are not just reading an account of the world, we're seeing and hearing our world.