Neil Gaiman Quotes About Empathy

Quotes about: Empathy

• Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Eye, People

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.175, Hachette UK

• I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Creating, Giving

  "Neil Gaiman: 'I don't think I'm mainstream. I'm lots of different cults'". Interview with Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2013.

• Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

  Neil Gaiman

  Self, People, Empathy

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.12, HarperCollins

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