Books Quote by Justin Cartwright

“ Whoever looks for the writer’s thinking in the words and thoughts of his characters is looking in the wrong direction. Seeking out a…

— Philip Roth

Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into the stature…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.

— Robert Lanza

In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically.

— Raymond Pettibon

“The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls,…

— J.K. Rowling

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls,…

— J. K. Rowling

In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

— Nadine Gordimer

The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.

— Steve Martin

“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

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

— Elbert Hubbard

Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.

— Joyce Carol Oates