Air Quote by Philippe Claudel

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

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

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

— Don DeLillo

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

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

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

— Bradford Cox

“The language that we employ in internal and written communications with oneself contains complex thoughts. My written self-speech employs language that is more sophisticated…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

When I'm having trouble I write by hand. There is some connection between the mind and the fingers that draws out words.

— Sophy Burnham

While writing, you are more interested in seeing what happens with you in the process, because all that writing is just you sorting through…

— Oz Perkins

I always think, when I'm in motion, writing seems like the most natural thing.

— Pam Houston

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 don't consciously think of any certain direction when I'm writing. I only try not to be repetitive or redundant.

— Jim Root