Body Quote by Patrick O'Brian

When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other…

— Dylan Moran

Writing is thinking in slow motion.

— Walter Kaufmann

I always write after I think for quite a long time, so the actual writing time is rather short. I think a lot of…

— Helen Vendler

I sit down and I write what I'm thinking and what I feel - it happens all at once, I never stop writing.

— Lydia Hearst

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation…

— Ruth Ozeki

I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that pen in…

— Paul Auster

When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.

— John Lydon

Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my mind.

— Jonathan Lethem

The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us…

— Norbet Platt

I write about two hours a day, and I write in fits and spurts - 45 minutes here, a half-hour there - and when…

— Ellen Potter

Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.

— Daniel Kahneman

I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.

— Georges Simenon