Consciousness Quote by Melody Beattie

“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 consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.

— Nicole Brossard

“Writing allows us to row the mind into new, unanticipated directions, change our stream of consciousness, and alter our very being.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

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

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

— Antonio Damasio

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

“The act of writing if one is conscious of legibility is a wonderful discipline. Our minds, which roil like captured oceans, are forced to…

— Anonymous

Writing is like meditation or going into an ESP trance, or prayer. Like dreaming. You are tapping into your unconscious. To be fully conscious…

— Carolyn Chute

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

Writing should be useful. If it can't instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness there's no point in doing it.

— Edward Albee

“What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story.”

— Steve Maraboli

I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious.

— David Rakoff