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title: "5 Linear Thinker Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-mantel/i-m-a-very-organised-and-rational-and-linear-thinker-and-you-have-to/)

[Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-mantel/)

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> [When you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I've never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-z/when-you-step-outside-of-school-and-have-to-teach-yourself-about-life/)

[Jay-Z](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-z/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/190/jay-z-713_connections_when-you-step-outside-of-school-and-have_578689.jpg)

> [I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurell-k-hamilton/i-am-a-very-linear-thinker-so-i-write-beginning-to-end-i-write/)

[Laurell K. Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurell-k-hamilton/)

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> [I'm not at all a linear thinker. I know the feeling I want to convey, but the form is what I struggle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phoebe-gloeckner/i-m-not-at-all-a-linear-thinker-i-know-the-feeling-i-want-to-convey/)

[Phoebe Gloeckner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phoebe-gloeckner/)

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> [I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-k-jemisin-2/i-am-a-linear-thinker-in-a-lot-of-ways/)

[N. K. Jemisin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-k-jemisin-2/)

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