Asks Quote by Barack Obama

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and…

— Joan Didion

I try to write in a way where you care deeply what the next paragraph will be. I hear the rhythm of prose and…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Thinking, writing are ultimately questions of stamina.

— Susan Sontag

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at. What I see and what I fear.

— Joan Didion

“To ask how I feel about writing is to ask how I feel about breathing.”

— Shakirah Bourne

I've always believed that you write to discover what you think. On most subjects, if I'm asked what do I think about them, I'd…

— Richard Eyre

“Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into a lucid form and forcing them…

— Pat Conroy

Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well…

— Randy Newman

“The way a writer has to grapple with understanding and expressing issues is so exacting that this hobby soon sharpens thought processes, refining the…

— Johnson C. Philip

Someday, as an exercise, you might ask a writer to give himself the questions he wants to answer. If you really want a writer's…

— John Fante

It's really hard to talk about writing, and I'm usually conscious if I'm misleading people or misleading the questioner, because the problem with writing…

— Tom Stoppard

“(on teaching writing) So many writers come to class with one question dominant in their mind, 'How do I make a living from this?'…

— Celine Kiernan