Character Quote by Alice Hoffman

If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.

— Terry Brooks

“We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Writing is magic because it harnesses the energy generated by the chaos within.

— Linda Gray

Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.

— Will Hobbs

To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only…

— Tom Bissell

“Writers leave a trail of magic everywhere they go.”

— Jo Linsdell

“I believe in magic. As a writer, I create them on blank paper.”

— Sonnia Kemmer

One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“The real reason that language so often carries magic is because humans have trouble not ascribing special power to it. Language makes so many…

— Peter Elbow

“Writers and magicians do essentially the same thing, they create worlds with words and will.”

— James L. Wilber

“Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their…

— Eric Morgenstern