Walking in someone else's shoes

Malorie Blackman, a British writer who held the position of Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015, once said, “Reading is an exercise in empathy, an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.

Whether you are reading fiction or nonfiction, you are provided the opportunity to experience empathy. When you feel what the main character feels, you have just walked in another person’s shoes, and it doesn’t matter if that person exists in the real world or not.