Allowing Quote by Kathy Acker

Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image, then a…

— Diane Glancy

Writing is like pulling your hair out. You have nothing, and you can't think of anything, but you have to think of something.

— Charlie Day

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

— Don DeLillo

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

— Toni Morrison

“All forms of writing are an act of conception; writing must lead to creation. Each time that we write, we begin again. Writing is…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

— E. B. White

Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way, change your…

— Joan Didion

“Writing is a disciplined, methodical, and systematic method that a person can logically employ to awaken dominant layers of consciousness.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

— Twinkle Khanna

Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.

— Natalie Goldberg

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you…

— Anne Lamott

“The process of writing can be magical — there times when you step out of an upper-floor window and you just walk across thin…

— Neil Gaiman