As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.
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.
A writer's work is to witness things.
That's why I love being a writer. My imagination can take me places I may never see except in my mind's eye.
One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.
A lot of writing is thinking.
In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.
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.