Fiction Quote by Kathy Acker Download Open image “First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.” — Kathy Acker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Fiction writing Firsts Magic Thinking Writing
Writing is magic because it harnesses the energy generated by the chaos within. — Linda Gray Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical. — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.” — Ann Marie Aguilar Copy Share Image
writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible! — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters. — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?” — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
My nutritionist read my pathology report and said, "There's only one way you can beat your cancer." "What's that?" "You have to find out… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“Every angel is terrifying. Through the darkness, they move silently... I will go down into death with you. I must go where I must… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
You create identity, you're not given identity per se. What became more and more interesting to me wasn't the I, it was text because… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
It's all up to you, girls. You have to be strong. These are the days of post-women's liberation. You have grown up by now… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“Since Pussy never had thought, nor would she think, that women shouldn't have abortions, she had to come to terms with the realization that… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image