We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.
I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Like all writers, I draw from life as I know it; but it's a refracted kind of reality, and none of it is factually true.
We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.
As a writer and as a reader, I really believe in the power of narrative to allow us ways to experience life beyond our own, ways to reflect on things that have happened to us and a chance to engage with the world in ways that transcend time and gender and all sorts of things.
I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen.
Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
Our lives aren't prepackaged along narrative lines and, therefore, by its very nature, reality-based art - underprocessed, underproduced - splinters and explodes.