Begins Quote by Richard Rhodes

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on…

— Don DeLillo

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

— Don DeLillo

“Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. I don’t know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try…

— Don DeLillo

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

— E. B. White

Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use…

— Sinclair Lewis

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

— Elbert Hubbard

Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to come out…

— Sandra Cisneros

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

— David McCullough

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

— Toni Morrison

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

— Twinkle Khanna

Ideally, writing ought to be like riding a bicycle: something you know how to do without having to think consciously about exactly what it…

— Brian Stableford