One of the great things about creative writing is that you get to write the kind of dialogue that sound brilliant but that no one ever gets an opportunity to say in real life. For every “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” or “Marcia Marcia Marcia!” that you can find a way to use every day, there are thousands of fantastic and dramatic lines you can never quite work into the conversation.
Although, if you ever adopted out a boy named Luke just so you could meet him again one day and tell him you’re his father, please write an article about that experience.
But if you got the chance, what line from a work of fiction would you most like to get a chance to use?
For you, the day Baldwin wrote this QOTD was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Thursday.
