To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.
As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.
That's why I love being a writer. My imagination can take me places I may never see except in my mind's eye.
I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves.
To some extent, I draw on what I see around me; in other places, I imagine what I write.
As a writer, it's a great narrative tool to have that character who is slightly detached but at the same time observant of his reality, because I think that's pretty much what being a writer is - being there, watching and internalizing.
You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to what you want to happen. I think one of the things that I always try to think about is what would really happen in a situation, what feels real.
When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.