Ramon Loyola on Writing and Empathy

Ramon Loyola is a Philippine-born writer and government lawyer based in Sydney. With a background in clinical pharmacy, public relations, and writing for television and medical journals, he relates the importance of experience, biography and empathy to his creative writing. Image: Ramon Loyola (Supplied)

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Loyola talks about his work and why "as a writer you need to have a degree of empathy and be as observant as you can".