Able Quote by Hermann Hesse

I have a foot here and a foot in some spirit world. There are many more layers to reality, and that permeates my life…

— Isabel Allende

I wanted to write; I sought all possible paths of personal liberation, but I could never sacrifice a living instant of life for the…

— Nina Berberova

There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write.

— James Salter

I decided if I couldn't be a writer, my life would be miserable. I had this imaginary room of references to all the books…

— Per Petterson

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and…

— Albert Einstein

I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved; my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal being, but…

— Haruki Murakami

I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop.…

— Jay-Z

“I'm afraid to write. It's so dangerous. Anyone who's tried, knows. The danger of stirring up hidden things - and the world is not…

— Clarice Lispector

We also write to heighten our own awareness of life... We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection... We write…

— Anais Nin

The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about in my…

— Siddharth Katragadda

I'd chosen to dedicate my life to writing, and I asked myself, 'if you write your whole life, and nobody ever sees a word,…

— Nathan Englander

There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

— Irvine Welsh