
First Draft - Jacqueline Mitchard
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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The Importance of Empathy and Compassion
The idea of empathy and compassion was so at the core of your book, like you weren't hitting people over the head with it at all. The last person on the face of the earth i wanted to be was that mother. And yet, by enfolding her story into mine, by offering a part of me to her and a letting her inhabit me, that's exactly what happened. I will never forget how she looked, what she wore, the way her voice sounded.
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