Darren Star Quotes

It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.

One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.

I find that it's really important for me to imagine characters and situations. That allows me a lot of freedom.

When I write, I try to become different characters.

I don't want to draw from my own experiences in life. I first like to become the character and then think from her point of view.

There are aspects of writing that require you to image yourself in various roles and guises, to stand in the shoes of others, to 'act' on an inner stage.

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.

I started writing stories as a child.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.

When I'm writing fiction, I'm sort of interested by the fact that somehow or other I can have the feeling of actually seeing things through someone else's eyes.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.

I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

I get to do what I love every day. I get to crawl into someone else's head and I love that.

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.