Baseball Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.

— Andy Rooney

I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.

— Don DeLillo

It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

I write all day every day, so when I feel unproductive, it magnifies everything else.

— Blake Butler

Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

— Meg Rosoff

Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that…

— Elliott Carter

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

— S. I. Hayakawa

There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.

— Al Seckel

When I watch students make particular decisions about language, structure, and form, it sharpens my own thinking and my own development as a writer.

— Leni Zumas

I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many…

— Jennifer Egan

As an observer, I'm analysing my reactions, I guess, and my thinking; but about the process of writing... I am not very talented at…

— Janet Malcolm

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