Firsts Quote by Anne Waldman

Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.

— Brenda Ueland

I treat both acting and writing as a creation - writing is just another element or aspect of it.

— Meital Dohan

No matter what you write, you need an active imagination.

— Elizabeth Berg

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can…

— Ernest Hemingway

Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of…

— Rebecca Miller

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

— Mason Cooley

To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.

— Paul Theroux

Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough…

— Diana Wynne Jones

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

— Don DeLillo

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 get so…

— Zoe Kazan

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

— Don DeLillo

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

— Toni Morrison