Composing Quote by Walter J. Ong

Language and written language are the only real way we have to see inside another person's thoughts and to know what makes another person…

— Carol Windley

Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?

— Jacqueline Woodson

“Writing allows a person to explore both physical reality and the internal workings of their mind. Writing places us in touch with our unconsciousness.…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

What is writing? Writing is telepathy.

— Stephen King

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

Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the…

— Arthur M. Jolly

I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that pen in…

— Paul Auster

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

— Don DeLillo

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

“Writing is mental exercise and the preeminent method to train the mind to achieve a desirable state of mental quietude. Meditative writing, a single…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

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 think if a writer is not endeavoring to expand and alter consciousness in himself and in his readers, he is not doing much…

— William S. Burroughs