Flow Quote by Anton Chekhov

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

— Plato

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

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.

— Isabel Allende

Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally even when…

— Walter J. Ong

Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.

— Mel Brooks

Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and…

— Mary Gaitskill

Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer…

— Hillary Carlip

Writing is like pulling your hair out. You have nothing, and you can't think of anything, but you have to think of something.

— Charlie Day

I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think…

— Paulo Coelho

“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

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

— Toni Morrison

I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that there are…

— Stanley Crawford