Advantage Quote by Henry David Thoreau

I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Journal writing is, foremost, a way to order and reframe perspective.”

— Alexandra Johnson

A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day…

— Henry David Thoreau

Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the other hand,…

— Anna Kamienska

Writing is thinking on paper.

— William Zinsser

“But once your basic story is on paper, you need to think about what it means and enrich your following drafts with your conclusions.”

— Stephen King

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

— Don DeLillo

Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness,…

— Stephen Covey

Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed.

— Tim Ferriss

Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.

— Janet Burroway

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

— Chris Abani

“It took years of keeping journals to trust a simple fact: like life in transit, the writing inside is often fragmented, messy.”

— Alexandra Johnson