Can do Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

Writing is a supernatural thing.

— Silas House

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

— Kathy Acker

I am drawn to writing books about magic and the supernatural because those are the types of books I like to read. I've written…

— Cassandra Clare

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and…

— Ayana Mathis

I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.

— Joan Larkin

For me writing isn't a mental exercise, it's barely even a literary exercise, it feels like a spiritual experience.

— Ottessa Moshfegh

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

— Karen Russell

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people…

— Nick Earls

My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical…

— Alan Garner

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be…

— Nanci Griffith

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay