As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the imaginative process of creating believable characters in fiction.
Julia Glass expresses the unique role of a fiction writer, emphasizing the intricate task of breathing life into invented characters. The writer's craft lies in making the fictional tangible and relatable, blurring the lines between reality and imagination.
In practice
In a workshop on creative writing, this quote can inspire students to explore character development.
I write because I'm in love with language; because I like working for myself, inside my head; and because it's the only way I know to make a stab at answering the never-ending questions of the heart that arise simply from the everyday living of our lives.
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn't catch on right away - but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me.
I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me.
Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.
Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.
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