Day to day Quote by Alice Mattison

Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images… It is not a conscious recording…

— William Carlos Williams

All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which I think…

— Ayana Mathis

Sometimes life writes stories that nobody could imagine...

— Anonymous

I don't have much of an imagination, but I have a mind bank of details, which I play with. It's how I daydream, so…

— Sefi Atta

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

— John Ashbery

I write about other people's experiences from time to time.

— Gabriella Wilson

You're supposed to be writing from experience - experience with people, with reading, seeing some homeless guy on the street and making up some…

— Julie Plec

If I have experienced something in my life, it's probably going to be written about, and I don't particularly care if the person I'm…

— Finneas

I write from a personal perspective, but sometimes seeing something in the street like that will spark something that reminds me of my own…

— Arlo Parks

We have to be able to use our imaginations to make the character's experiences real to us.

— Elizabeth Marvel

I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about people who…

— Haruki Murakami

Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know

— John Gardner