Different ways Quote by Andrea Dworkin

“The form in which thoughts occur to a writer is rarely the same as the form in which they can be absorbed by a…

— Steven Pinker

I truly believe that writing is a continuum--so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need…

— Chris Abani

Writing in form is a way of developing your thinking - your thinking along with the tradition. In a way, it's not you alone,…

— Marilyn Nelson

All of these declarations of what writing ought to be, which I had myself-though, thank God I had never committed them to paper-I think…

— Jamaica Kincaid

If form is mechanically applied, it may indeed result in work that is conventional, if not pedantic or stupid. But form used well can…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.

— William Faulkner

The habit of committing our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic arrangement of…

— William Blaikie

“Writing allows us to row the mind into new, unanticipated directions, change our stream of consciousness, and alter our very being.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.

— Howard Nemerov

Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other,…

— Anonymous

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

— Don DeLillo

If you do not let go of thinking about forms, you will not understand what I am showing.

— Masaaki Hatsumi