Fountainhead Quote by Horace

A lot of writing is thinking.

— Horton Foote

Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.

— Roald Dahl

To write is to think, and to write well is to think well,

— David McCullough

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

— Mel Brooks

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

— Don DeLillo

“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard." (Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities , July/Aug.…

— David McCullough

Ideas are always the source of the work. The form needs to emerge from the idea, not be top-down.

— RaMell Ross

Good writing comes from good talent.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“All writers are like bomb-throwers, whether they attack with dense academic prose or jazzy riffs of stream-of-consciousness writing.”

— Betsy Lerner

“writing consists of thinking of a cool idea, making the promotional art and trailers and never write it”

— me, a professional

I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.

— Natalia Ginzburg

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

— Michael Arndt