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“I said earlier that we are all poets, though not many of us write poetry; and so are we all novelists, that is, we…

— John Fowles

“Writing is a form of intense thinking that takes a person on a journey into previously uncharted territory of the writer’s mind.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences every thing twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

“Writing derives from an accumulation of experience. It's as if you collect facts and observations over time, like a stone to stand on. From…

— Harriet Doerr

“Writing is a conduit. It opens up a passageway into the past. Not just for the writer, but for the reader too. Both readers…

— Lang Leav

“Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts.”

— khaled Talib

“Writing allows us to row the mind into new, unanticipated directions, change our stream of consciousness, and alter our very being.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s end….Then, again,…

— Anonymous

“Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.”

— Alan McCluskey

“When I am writing a novel, the setting, the characters, the action is clear in mind when I start -- so I believe. But…

— P.D. James

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Writing about the past is a way of reliving it, a way of seeing it unfold all over again. We place memories on pieces…

— Nathan Filer