“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'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just that it seems like it would make a good story.” ReasonStoriesSeemsTermImaginationEmotionalComplicatedMy ImaginationGood Story Author:Jim Shepard