“I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I read about meld with what I have experienced.” ThinkingStuffImaginationFictionExerciseEmpathetic Author:Jim Shepard
“I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine the other. An agenda, again, that seems more important now than ever.” WorldTryingImportantStoriesSeemsFormFictionImagineAgendasAnalyzing Author:Jim Shepard
“I have written screenplays. Most recently for Errol Morris, who was thinking about doing his first fiction movie, and with a young director who wanted to adopt Project X. Errol was a hoot. I loved talking with him. We were a good match, too, because we both kept joking that we'd found the only other person on earth more ambivalent than we were about the project.” ThinkingFirstsPersonsWantedEarthYoungFoundFictionTalkingWrittenDirectorsProjectsScreenplaysAmbivalentHootMorris Author:Jim Shepard
“I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to read.” WantReadingFictionMy TimeNon Fiction Author:Jim Shepard
