Art Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse to that…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Writing is a mysterious activity.

— Susan Sontag

I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing, nourishing magician's…

— Janette Turner Hospital

There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I've found to be true: writing…

— Dorianne Laux

I guess what I'm trying to say is that writing is mysterious; you don't ever truly know where it is coming from, so don't…

— Tavi Gevinson

Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing…

— Andrea Barrett

I want my art to make people look at the world in a new way. I mean, what's the point of the art of…

— John Banville

It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The art of writing is not, as many seem to imagine, the art of bringing fine phrases into rhythmical order, but the art of…

— George Henry Lewes

“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.”

— Cyril Connolly