Decided Quote by Raymond Pettibon

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

— Rachel Kushner

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need…

— Anonymous

I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

— Richard Paul Evans

I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange…

— Marshall McLuhan

The artwork had very little to do with the thought process, and the writing too, for that matter. What happens, happens, and it happens…

— Jules Feiffer

Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images… It is not a conscious recording…

— William Carlos Williams

Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image.

— Norman Lock

I think that I'm going to write a bigger thing, and then I end up writing about people, and the bigger thing recedes into…

— Stephen Karam

In terms of the symbolism, I think that if you do it right, writing is a bit like dreaming.

— Steven Knight

Well, I'm writing everything that isn't my final project, so that when I actually sit down to write it, that's all that will be…

— Rainbow Rowell

Thinking visually is my starting point, and then the writing happens.

— Gerard Way

My writing is a picture of the mind moving.

— Philip Whalen