Empathy is something you can develop for sure because we're all born with that capacity. Some people have and it's a brilliant thing, but most of us are born with this ability to get in the minds of other people. But as for me personally, I think the nature of my own childhood, where I was kind of left alone and I kind of had to, I felt a little bit vulnerable to people. That was my way of protecting myself. It doesn't come from necessarily a strong place. It comes from a weak place. So my empathy came from that place of weakness but it's what made me want to be a writer because writing is getting inside the worlds of other

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