Ifs Quote by Joan Didion

Writing helped me understand what I was thinking about.

— John Baldessari

To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.

— Byron Katie

Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I'm a civilized person who obeys the law and is pretty easy to get along with, but I'm more complicated than that. I use…

— Liz W. Garcia

“If your career doesn’t work out, write a book about it.”

— Marcy Sheiner

We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's…

— Leonard Cohen

No music. No rituals. At home I write in my office or on the laptop in the kitchen where our puppy likes to sleep,…

— Gail Carson Levine

I'm not somebody who carries around a notepad and writes songs all day long. I don't imagine everything I think of is worth being…

— Jakob Dylan

“You must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Tell…

— Anne Lamott

I start work at 7 A.M. and write all day, seven days a week. If I don't write, I can't sleep.

— Anthony Horowitz

“Love or hate my work. I write not to impress. It's just in me to give.”

— Anne-Rae Vasquez

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a…

— J. K. Rowling

What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

Work. Write. Read. Keep putting words on the page, because that's the only way you'll get better.

— S.J. Watson

My first published novel, 'American Rust,' took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before…

— Philipp Meyer