Consciousness Quote by Lidija Dimkovska

Usually when I'm writing, I kind of know what it is before I start writing and I write stream of consciousness style.

— Billy Bob Thornton

Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so…

— Terry Eagleton

I write from the voice in my head.

— Leo Sayer

Like, even when I speak, I think I speak the same way I write. I kind of see it a certain way, and it…

— Anthony Hamilton

Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.

— Nicole Brossard

When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner…

— Rachel Holmes

When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come out of…

— John Banville

I rarely write in my own voice except in book reviews and memoirs; otherwise, I am writing in mediated voices, modulated in terms of…

— Joyce Carol Oates

It's always been difficult for me to speak and express my innermost thoughts. I prefer to write. When I sit down and write, words…

— Philippe Claudel

I basically just write stream of consciousness to a certain extent. I let the song kind of go where it wants to go.

— Julia Holter

I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational than other…

— James Frey

Each time you write something, part of you grows. You're training your artistic muscles to find your voice.

— Pen Densham