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If your life is worth thinking about,it is worth writing about. — Robin S. Sharma

And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with, two things have to happen. — Edward Hirsch

Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian. — Gregory McDonald

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think. — Albert Einstein

I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not. — Matthew Specktor

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time. — Frederik Pohl

The beauty of existence is my joy. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me. — Charlie Kaufman

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. — Gene Weingarten

Writing is thinking on paper — William Zinsser

I think writing is a much more personal thing. — Patrick Stump

People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes — Chris Abani

I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a sequel. — Michael Lewis

When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there. — Jason Reitman

I don't think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it. — Robert Creeley

It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write. — Erica Jong

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking. — Horace

What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter. — Anne Roiphe

Writing is a business and should be practiced as such. On days when you think you can't possibly write a line you do it anyhow. — Henry Denker

It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know. — PJ Harvey

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

For most people who write, writing is a compulsion. If I could be healed of it, I would, and I think a lot of people who write feel the same way. — T. R. Pearson

Writing in form is a way of developing your thinking - your thinking along with the tradition. In a way, it's not you alone, it's you in partnership. — Marilyn Nelson

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion. — Red Haircrow

The holiness of solitude is the gift of creativity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan. — Julian Schnabel

Creativity is salve for the soul — Phillip Gary Smith

The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die
maybe. — Steve Earle

Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write. — Gail Godwin

I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is. — Cary Fukunaga

The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don't think. Don't care. — Richard Bach

Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through the fingers, through the hands. — Lenora Champagne

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I just write what I think is good and keep it at a thousand words. — Henry Rollins

The writing about what you know thing was a huge one. Not worrying so much about what people think. Just writing for myself and the band is enough. — Luke Temple

I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all. — Nicholas Sparks

If there's an idea I think is really good and I feel like I can write it, then I'll do it. — Matt Damon

I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work of writing fiction. — Yuriy Tarnawsky

All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves. — J. Anthony Lukas

One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time. — David Lipsky

Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so much and just let it happen. — Stephen King

Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Destroying the planet is like stepping from a moving train and thinking it will all work out. — Jason E. Hodges

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting. — Robert Altman

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another. — Seneca The Younger

People think I'm educated because I talk and write well, but the fact is I never finished high school. I've read a lot, is all. — Patricia McConnell

I think there's no purpose for writing music if it is not meaningful. — Darren Fletcher

Writing, for me, is the best occupation I can think of, and there is nothing in the world I would rather do. — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Now you're discovering the great secret of great writing: one line of true feeling is worth a thousand pages of clever thinking. — Menna Van Praag

What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music? — Charles Mingus

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better. — Hermann Hesse

Writing is good, thinking is better. Being smart is good, being patient is better. — Hermann Hesse

My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing. — Jean Craighead George

I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself. — William S. Burroughs

It's a lot easier to think of an app and write it than it is to convince people to want it, — Steve Wozniak

I think e-mail is kind of a cheap way to communicate. It's a lazy way of writing a letter, you know. — Peyton Manning

The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it, whether it excites me. — Theodora Goss

Writing is refined thinking. — Stephen King

My natural inclination is to think in scenes. So that's how I write, and the issue for me is usually: what to compress for speed. — Leigh Newman

Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing. — Ken Kesey

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you. — Maya Lin

Writing is thinking on paper. Anyone who thinks clearly can write clearly, about anything at all. — William Zinsser

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. — Isaac D'Israeli

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths. — Wally Lamb

Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake. — Christopher Dodd

If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical. — Terry Brooks

I think the internet is a great marketing tool
but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels. — Bentley Little

The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity. — Criss Jami

Writing is thinking in slow motion. — Walter Kaufmann

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality. — John Gardner

There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight. — Warren Buffett

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

I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion. — Randall Robinson

A doctorate study is the passion for extensive research, reading, thinking and writing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done. — Flannery O'Connor

My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that. — Craig Finn

I used to worry I was entirely uninteresting, but the truth is I think if my life was more exciting I'd never have any time to write. — Sarah Dessen

I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the same thing. — Mac Barnett

Bringing up issues that are hard to deal with is a challenge for me, and I think that's what draws me to song writing. — Brett Dennen

I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific. — David Mamet

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking. — Don DeLillo

Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not. — Anne Lamott

I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person. — Virginia Woolf

I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself. — David Talbot

I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner. — Dorothy Wordsworth

The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious. — Aimee Bender

I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing. — Roy Blount Jr.

I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films. — Charlize Theron

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem. — Charles Bukowski

I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc. — Rob Chapman

I think writing is one of the toughest things. — Eran Creevy

Writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Whatever works for the piece I'm thinking about is the way I write ... — Glenn Branca

What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead. — Dana Gioia

I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the artist. — Erykah Badu

Writing to corroborate what you already think is the essence of bad writing. — Victor LaValle

I always have to be thinking about who's going to be singing this song, what the context is. I don't sit around just writing in a vacuum, ever. — Adam Schlesinger