Writing Thinking Quotes

“When I'm not writing, I'm thinking about writing!”

— C.S. Dixon

A lot of writing is thinking.

— Horton Foote

Writing is thinking in slow motion.

— Walter Kaufmann

Writing is thinking on paper.

— William Zinsser

Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.

— Jaron Lanier

“Start writing by thinking, not wrestling with words.”

— Jonathan Price

Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work.

— Lewis Black

The best part of writing is thinking about the story. And then everything else takes a lot of discipline.

— Kareem Mortimer

I don't freestyle, but when I'm writing and thinking, sometimes things pop up - that's basically a freestyle.

— Andre Benjamin

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

— David McCullough

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

— Helen Gurley Brown

Both writing and thinking, like children, require plenty of patience till growing up.

— Mariana Fulger

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

— Anonymous

Back to work. If I’m [writing] I’m not thinking about the crazy.

— Faith Hunter

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.

— Eugene Ionesco

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.

— Toni Morrison

“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard." (Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities…

— David McCullough

“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

People put off writing thinking they don't have the time or enough of an opinion to matter and that is crap. You…

— C.C. Chapman

Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away.

— Ben Marcus

I write a lot when I'm feeling bummed, but other times, you get locked in, and it's totally personal. If you're really…

— Kurt Vile

Whether you are in the West, the East, the North, or the South, we should all feel pressured to attempt more, find…

— Pankaj Mishra

I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American.

— Bill Bryson

Most of the time, when I'm writing, I'm writing for myself. I'm thinking, 'What will my character say at this time? What…

— Katori Hall

I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only…

— Zoe Kazan

When I'm writing, I'm thinking, "Well, this might be a book that I'll always be happy with, and certainly readers will be…

— John Edgar Wideman

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

I write about two hours a day, and I write in fits and spurts - 45 minutes here, a half-hour there -…

— Ellen Potter

“...learning is not the consequence of teaching or writing, but rather of thinking...so a playful, provocative, unclear but stimulating book could actually…

— Brian McLaren

There's something about the idea of writing, and thinking about writing as a form of prayer - the way as a writer…

— Ruth Ozeki

I have a basic indolence about me which is essential to writing. ... It's thinking time, it's hanging-out time, it's daydreaming time.…

— Grace Paley

The story goes that every Jedi constructs his own lightsaber, and every penmonkey constructs his own pen. Meaning, we all find our…

— Chuck Wendig

“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

“Life, it has been agreed by everyone whose opinion is worth consulting, is the only fit subject for novelist or biographer; life,…

— Virginia Woolf

“Day dreamers often can become night writers...When young I didn't toy with the concept of a glass half full or half empty.…

— Walter B. Biondi

Yeah, I shoot my mouth off. There's a huge difference between writing and thinking.

— Seymour Hersh

Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A writer never takes a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing”

— Eugène Ionesco

I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.

— Jeff Greenfield

Writing is thinking on paper. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly-about any subject at all.

— William Zinsser