Writing Quote by Gloria Bevan

“Fiction writing is a kind of magic. If I communicate the magic spell . . . it loses its force for me.”

— Angus Wilson

“As Mo had said: writing stories is a kind of magic, too.”

— Cornelia Funke

“As far as my characters doing what I want them to, I'm afraid I'm not a real writer like the rest of you because…

— Jessie Chandler

“... it is worth remembering that the act of writing has its own magic.”

— Jonathan Oliver

“If you can create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.”

— Somerset Maughn

“That's the thing about writers -on one hand evrything is sacred to them, but, on the other, nothing really is.”

— Lang Leav

“My characters tell me how they feel about other characters and events and they demand that I write it down for them.”

— Lindsay Marene Ordone

“I intend all my characters must escape from impossible situations; if they are not in trouble, then as a writer, I am.”

— Cleveland W. Gibson

“The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.”

— Donald Miller

“Writing is mostly a mind game. It’s about tricking yourself into becoming who you are. If you do this long enough, you begin to…

— Jeff Goins

“I write to keep the characters in my head from driving me crazy.”

— A.A. Cheshire

“...you can't write well with only the nice parts of your character, and only about nice things. And I don't want even to try…

— Alison Lurie