look out through other eyes
10th July 2016 | for Creatives | reading, books, Neil Gaiman, value the art |
"The most important thing that I think fiction does [is that] it lets us look out through other eyes... but it also gives us empathy. The act of looking out through other eyes tells us something huge and important, which is that other people exist. ... One of the things that fiction can give us is just the realization that behind every pair of eyes, there's somebody like us."
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