Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. Jorge Luis Borges
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Dr. Seuss
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. Albert Einstein
Writing is a product of silence and solitude. Unknown
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. Toni Morrison
One can never be alone enough to write. Susan Sontag
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it. Lloyd Alexander
Good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up. Stephen King
Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination. Stephen King
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s. Stephen King
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. John Steinbeck
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. Franz Kafka
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living; it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities. Dr. Seuss
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. Thomas Mann
Solitude is creativity’s best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls. Naomi Judd
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write. Somerset Maugham
Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. Joseph Conrad
We’re past the age of heroes and hero kings… Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it’s up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting. John Updike
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. Sylvia Plath
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature. Ernest Hemingway
There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. Doris Lessing
In solitude I find my answers. Kristen Butler
Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences. Anne McCaffrey
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. Jessamyn West
Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything. Stephen King
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. Terry Pratchett
The best thinking has been done in solitude. Thomas Edison
