Quotes About Transformation

I was going to be a writer, and that turned into journalist. And then that turned into a career in children's literature, which turned into early childhood education, which turned into psychology, which turned into premed, which turned into nursing school, which turned into communication, which turned into marketing and advertising.

Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer.

I think writers should create characters who are human and have a character arc of their own.

Writers transform: they throw a hand grenade into the notion of reality that people carry around in their heads. That's very dangerous, very destructive, but not to do it means you are satisfied with the status quo - and that's a kind of danger as well, because a kind of violence is already being perpetuated.

I kind of thought the writers were starting to take Taylor and make her kind of down and dirty.

When Sonic Youth writes music, we write everything in a very communal way. It doesn't matter who brought something in initially; it all gets transformed by the band.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

There's something special about writing by hand, writing with a fountain pen, and there's something special about writing into a book, to take a blank book and turn it into an actual book.

I started writing to save my life.

Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.

What is a spell after all but a way of coaxing syllables together so persuasively that some new word is spelled...some imprecision clarified, some name Named...and some change managed.

At its most elemental, a spell is no more than a recipe for change.

And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe.

In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings. When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats.

Always you were drawn to the composite creatures, the broken and reassembled, for that is what you are.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her-is it ever the right choice?

Winter still comes after autumn though you may have died over the summer.

What a world I've come up through, said Liir to himself. Oh, what a world, what a world.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be. ? Gregory Maguire