Book Quote by Phoebe Gloeckner

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

— N. K. Jemisin

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

— Napoleon Hill

If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to…

— Joan Didion

I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

— Imelda Marcos

I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.

— Sandra Cisneros

I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.

— Hilary Mantel

I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you…

— Carol Anshaw

You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want. You cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.

— Wallace D. Wattles

If there's the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.

— Ai Weiwei

I wouldn't write any kind of book without a contract and an advance. You can't invest that amount of time and effort without one.

— Harrison Salisbury

If there's an idea I think is really good and I feel like I can write it, then I'll do it.

— Matt Damon

When an idea comes, spend silent time with it. Remember Keats's idea of Negative Capability and Kipling's advice to "drift, wait, and obey." Along…

— Rose Tremain