Ability Quote by Toni Morrison

The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the…

— Walt Whitman

“The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.”

— Anonymous

“And in taking on the subject of themselves-making themselves vulnerable to the unseen reader-they have exchanged powerlessness for for the power that comes with…

— Wally Lamb

The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

— George Henry Lewes

“By applying their observational abilities along with full appliance of their logic and creative powers, writers attempt to create mental maps to share with…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Psychic abilities aren’t reserved for a gifted few—they are natural states of awareness we can all remember and reclaim.”

— Desta Barnabe

“But perhaps the answer is to stop writing altogether, for when I do write, even now as I write this very sentence, this very…

— Diane Setterfield

“Philosophy, beginning in wonder, as Plato and Aristotle said, is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the familiar as…

— William James

“Do not confuse the crippling hauntedness of judgment with the transformational power of awareness.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Writers use both their blood and their brains to explore the darkest recesses of their pooling self. Writing allows us to harness the whimsy…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“A writer is just like anyone else, he cannot know everything, nor can he experience everything, he must ask and imagine,”

— José Saramago

I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins on stories…

— Joe