Magic Quote by Haruki Murakami

“Writing itself was a magical act in which imagination altered reality and gave form to power.”

— Alice Hoffman

“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell him things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“as Flannery O’Connor put it, “In the act of writing, one sees that the way a thing is made, controls and is inseparable from…

— Sarah Arthur

“Writing is an act of discovery in which you peel back the layers of the story as you write it down.”

— Matt Forbeck

“...There is no such thing as a story. The words on paper are only instructions used by each reader to create a story. The…

— Damon Knight

“a story is a letter the author writes to himself to tell what he wouldn't discover otherwise.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.”

— Federico Chini

“Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the…

— Madelaine Standing

“The places and people in the following stories have been represented accurately to the best of my ability; yet my writing is supposed to…

— Eric Sloane

“Stories are a basic constituent of human life; they are, in fact, one key element within the total construction of a worldview. I”

— N.T. Wright

“My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy.…

— Tahir Shah

“Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume. We…

— Alan Watt