Viewing things differently

I have always thought - and I know I will be shot down for this in some quarters - that writers view the world differently than many people.
Talking to writers bears that out, though, the way a word, a phrase, an image, an idea can create a train of thought that evolves into a story.
I was talking to a writer the other day and he told how a line in a conversation triggered something deep within and produced a story.
Never is that process more pronounced, in my view, than when writers take something ordinary, routine, part of our daily lives, and present it in a way that is different.
That’s the beauty of writing.

John Dean