Able Quote by John Steinbeck

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced that there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it…

— John Steinbeck

So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I'm a blogger. It flowed very naturally out of me, but…

— Aarti Sequeira

Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

— Cornelia Funke

“A chef’s magic is his ingredients, how he can substitute one for another, then break with convention by changing it all around again without…

— Karl Wiggins

Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better…

— Neil Gaiman

I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and…

— Taiye Selasi

That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the…

— James Frey

A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.

— Susanna Clarke

Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it.

— Neil Gaiman

One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.

— Terry Brooks