Parvathy Quotes

I think that good storytelling of any kind does promote a humility in that it encourages you to see the world the way that other people see it.

I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do - it can make us identify with situations and people far away.

When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.

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

At the end of the day, stories connect us, not politics. And there's so many stories out there waiting to be told. It's just a matter of who's out there listening.

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity.

Taking on different characters and seeing things through the eyes of different people is interesting to me. When I look at what people are going through in life, I try to understand their story.

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

It's important to stay a human, to be a journalist, to be a human covering the stories and trying as best as I can to put myself in their shoes, to be respectful, to just listen.

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

So I wanted to explore all points of view of that, not just the girl's but his point of view as well. Only by directing it could I explore all the points of view.

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

Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.

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.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.