Debi Gliori Quotes

That's one of the great thing about writing is that you get to be in someone's head.

I hadn't really thought about this until 'The Lake of Dreams,' but I've set all my stories in places that are familiar to me. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters.

A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.

Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world.

All my life, books have felt alive; some more so than people, or rather, some people. Alive - this has to do with me, I know, and not the books - in a way that some people aren't. Alive as teachers, alive as minds, alive as imaginative triggers.

By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.

I'm constantly surprised by human nature and humanity. And I think that's why I love what I do: because I love to story-tell and bring new characters to life.

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

Give me a story which I connect with and then I am going to do it.

But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw up, so someone will tell you, that's all.

Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the palm-tree invites it to pitch the tent. Perpetually passing out of himself and his own positive circumstantial condition of being into other hearts and into other conditions, the poet obtains his knowledge of human life by transporting his own life into the lives of others.

Writers do not write about a place because they belong there, but because they want to.

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.

I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.

Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday. If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting-often unwilling-recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that.

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

Saul Bellow once said, 'A writer is a reader who has moved to emulation' — which I think is true. I just started writing and made that jump from reader to writer and learned how hard it was, but also how much fun it was — losing myself in these imaginary worlds.