Approach Quote by Peter Turchi

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

— Elbert Hubbard

Writing is always a way, for me, of coming to some sort of understanding that I can't reach otherwise.It forces you to think. It…

— Joan Didion

I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a mountain, a…

— Jonathan Lethem

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

— Don DeLillo

It's something that's difficult to explain but I think all writers work this way to some extent, whether we're aware of it or not.…

— Mary J. Miller

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

— Don DeLillo

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

— Cheryl Strayed

I try not to think too much about my writing process - I tend to feel my way forward and find more insights that…

— Nick Petrie

Writers do not want to think they are less rational than other people, and at the mercy of compulsions, but in their hearts they…

— Hilary Mantel

I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the…

— Armistead Maupin

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.

— Anonymous