About Quote by Isabel Allende

I've always said I have one foot wholly removed from reality at all times, but I like it that way. I feel like I…

— Ethel Cain

If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment, if I did not constantly skirt the abyss and feel the void under my feet,…

— Hermann Hesse

You write something and there’s no reality to it. You can’t inject it with any kind of reality. You have to be patient and…

— Deborah Eisenberg

I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when…

— Questlove

I always figure there are novels and short stories, and in those, I'm God. No one tells me what to do. I don't have…

— Neil Gaiman

I know that when I think of myself as being utterly worn out, when I think that somehow I have nothing more to write,…

— Jorge Luis Borges

...It's an unmeetable level of writing. But even if it's something I feel like I can't ever attain, it doesn't crush my spirit. I…

— Paul Banks

I should say, I don't write about myself or my life. So for me, in fiction, it's always been about what I can dream…

— Jennifer Egan

I AM A PERSON WHO THINKS ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT WHEN I WRITE. I THINK ABOUT WHAT CAN'T BE KNOWN AND ONLY…

— Amy Tan

When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.

— Terry Tempest Williams

And I do pay a lot of attention to how things feel underneath my feet. It's a way of transporting yourself somewhere that you're…

— Evie Wyld

Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation for having…

— Norman Lock