Daily Dialogue — November 10, 2015

“I decided to stop pitying myself. Other than my eye, two things aren’t paralyzed, my imagination and my memory.”

— The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), screenplay by Ronald Harwood, book by Jean-Dominique Bauby

The Daily Dialogue theme for the month: Writers and Writing.

Trivia: The screenplay for this film was featured in the 2006 Black List.

Dialogue On Dialogue: This is an amazing true story about a paralyzed man who learns and alphabet using one of his few functioning muscles — his left eye — to write a book. It’s a testament to the power of our two most powerful writing tools: Imagination and memory.