Association Quote by William S. Burroughs

“For most writers, reading is also a very intense experience; they don’t read so much as compete. The writer measure’s himself against every text…

— Betsy Lerner

The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and…

— Robert De Niro

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

Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally even when…

— Walter J. Ong

You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the writer is…

— F. Sionil Jose

Writer does nothing, But think deeply.

— Shashank Rayal

If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and…

— Mary Gaitskill

First of all you are a writer, a writer is what you are, so it doesn't actually stop the moment you leave your desk,…

— Terry Pratchett

I'm bothered, as a reader, when I feel the writer is filling in too much. Again, whether it's nonfiction or fiction, I think writers…

— Lynne Tillman

“When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. In learning to write, the pupil goes over with his…

— arthur schopenhauer

Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are…

— Raymond Chandler