“The real education never ends. It is a cycle of reading, thinking and writing.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
I often spend the majority of my time thinking and writing down notes. — Miguel McKelvey Copy Share Image
Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you. — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
My focus has always been on the work - that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That's… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I had at some point the epiphany that if I wanted to be a writer, maybe I should stop thinking about writing,… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
Outside of interviews, I spend very little time thinking about myself. I spend time thinking about my writing and my children and… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and… — Nick Blaemire Copy Share Image
You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I pretty much always knew I wanted to be a writer. I was writing goofy stories when I was 7 or 8.… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
When I grow bored, pick up the pen and begin thinking. Thinking and writing because it's chasing a dream, hoping to be… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
“Writing about myself (in MI VIDA), has given me a feeling that I had never had before- that the past is like… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
With a novel, you have to have a story. It's much more important to have it matter to the reader what happens… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There's something about the idea of writing, and thinking about writing as a form of prayer - the way as a writer… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
The story goes that every Jedi constructs his own lightsaber, and every penmonkey constructs his own pen. Meaning, we all find our… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“When I'm not writing, I'm thinking about writing. Filling pages and people with inspiration. When my thoughts don't want to rest on… — Antonia Perdu Copy Share Image
It is no use thinking that writing of poems - the actual writing - can accommodate itself to a social setting, even… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Writing helps us heal in certain way, but it doesn't make the experience of thinking about writing that occasion any less painful.… — Sarah Gerard Copy Share Image
“I’m feeling a low regarding writing. I sometimes think I should finish working on my book of stripper poetry that I started,… — Sheila Hageman Copy Share Image
“Everyone should try write two philosophical observations of about 300 words a day, to keep the brain fit. The brain is a… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
“I was actually thinking about writing, maybe," Owen said. "About Charm?" Kiel asked, raising an eyebrow. "No?" Owen said, probably a bit… — James Riley Copy Share Image
A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
I am always thinking about writing music; my wife is constantly asking me: 'Is there any way you can turn off the… — Kellin Quinn Copy Share Image
I'm very happy for others to engage in conjecture, but if I was ever conscious of what I'm thinking about when I'm… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
When people speak to me of the torment of writing, I can think only of what it was like before I wrote:… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Everything I do is because of writing. If I go for a walk, it's because I'm thinking of writing. I go look… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I've been thinking so much about writing as a gift to readers - and how newness of subject (place or topic or… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
![“When I'm not writing, I'm thinking about writing. Filling pages and people with inspiration. When my thoughts don't want to rest on a page, we argue. We argue that one merely is ready just too comfortable playing in The Nile [denial] river. So we compromise. We grow, water metaphors and plant…” quote by Antonia Perdu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9c/antonia-perdu-25270_beauty_when-i-m-not-writing-i-m-thinking-about_2180719.jpg)
