To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism.
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Being able to write creatively or read creative fiction is the best way to exercise your imagination.
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.
Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.
The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.
Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.
When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.
Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?
I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.