Attention Quote by Kate DiCamillo

Writing is thinking in slow motion.

— Walter Kaufmann

So much of writing is like walking down a dark hallway with your arms out in front of you. You bump into a lot…

— Kate DiCamillo

Writing is hustling of another kind.

— John Rechy

Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain.

— William Zinsser

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.

— Julia Cameron

Writing is thinking on paper.

— William Zinsser

Writing is a mysterious activity.

— Susan Sontag

Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way…

— Don DeLillo

I see my writing as the process of looking at the usual, but from two steps to the side.

— Katherine Dunn

There are so many different things out there trying to hook our attention, we writers have to be very selective and make certain that…

— Sue Monk Kidd

A lot of writing is thinking.

— Horton Foote

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

— Tracy Kidder