Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and work is often the keyhole through which you peer.
Interpretation
Writing allows one to explore and understand perspectives different from their own.
This quote emphasizes the power of writing as a tool for empathy. By engaging with diverse viewpoints, writers can connect with experiences that may be foreign or unfamiliar to them, fostering a deeper understanding of humanity. The metaphor of a 'keyhole' suggests that writing offers a unique glimpse into these lives and insights, unlocking doors to new perspectives and fostering compassion.
In practice
A writer might use this quote in a workshop on empathy in storytelling.
You could say that my aim is ‘to recover the place’. The place is a result of nature and time; this is the most important aspect. I think my architecture is some kind of frame of nature. With it, we can experience nature more deeply and more intimately. Transparency is a characteristic of Japanese architecture; I try to use light and natural materials to get a new kind of transparency.
Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.
Have a strong vision about the story you want to tell and how you want to tell it.
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.
Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
When I first began choreographing, I never thought of it as choreography but as expressing feelings. Though every piece is different, they are all trying to get at certain things that are difficult to put into words. In the work, everything belongs to everything else - the music, the set, the movement and whatever is said.
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