Writing And Thinking Quotes:

Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.

- Jaron Lanier

topic: Writing, Thinking, Writing And Thinking

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

- Philip Roth

topic: Writing, Progress, Hell, Swedish, Inspiration To Write

The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

- Julie Powell

topic: Potatoes, Hell, Swedish, Inspiration To Write, Writing Fiction

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

- Samuel Johnson

source: Statement on April 14, 1775. "Life of Samuel Johnson". Book by James Boswell. Volume II, 1791.

topic: Wisdom, Writing, Procrastination, Swedish, Inspiration To Write

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

- Stephen King

topic: Writing, Hell, Adverbs, Swedish, Inspiration To Write

The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.37, Hamilton Books

topic: Dog, Writing, Sisterhood, Swedish, Inspiration To Write

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

- Elbert Hubbard

source: "Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen" by Elbert Hubbard, (p. 370), 1898.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Failure, Make You Think Twice, Innovation Inspiration

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

- E. L. Doctorow

source: Interview in "Writers at Work" (The Paris Review Interviews), 8th Series, 1988.

topic: Writing, Schizophrenia, Form, Writing Advice, Inspiring Writing

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Thinking Of You, Writing, Creativity, Amazing Things, Creative People

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Witty, Humorous, Writing, Great Writing, Writing And Thinking

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

topic: Book, Reading, Writing, Writing And Thinking

Whether you are in the West, the East, the North, or the South, we should all feel pressured to attempt more, find new ways of outwitting ourselves, in our writing and thinking.

- Pankaj Mishra

topic: Writing, Thinking, East, Outwitting, Writing And Thinking

I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.

- Jeff Greenfield

topic: Writing, Math, Thinking, Writing And Thinking

Cognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession is to strike the right balance of mediocrity in writing and thinking, which invariably entails echoing one of two party lines, poorly.

- Ilana Mercer

topic: Party, Writing, Thinking, Writing And Thinking, Consonance

I don't freestyle, but when I'm writing and thinking, sometimes things pop up - that's basically a freestyle.

- Andre Benjamin

topic: Writing, Thinking, Sometimes, Writing And Thinking, Freestyle

Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking were dangerous for women. Articles in the Lancet declared that women's brains would burst and their uteruses atrophy if they engaged in any form of rigorous thinking. The famous physician J.D. Kellogg insisted that novel reading was the greatest cause of uterine disease among young women and urged parents to protect their daughters from the dreaded consequences of print.

- Dale Spender

topic: Daughter, Reading, Writing, Uterus, Writing And Thinking

When I'm happy, when I'm enjoying life, I'm home, I'm surfing, I'm spending time with my wife, my friends and I'm not thinking about the pain. And then the moment I encounter something that feels difficult, I feel like that's when, for me, I turn to writing and thinking and maybe a song comes from that.

- Jon Foreman

source: Source: www.songfacts.com

topic: Song, Pain, Home, Writing And Thinking

We should think more about it, and accustom ourselves to the thought of death. We can't allow the fear of death to creep up on us unexpectedly. We have to make the fear familiar, and one way is to write about it. I don't think writing and thinking about death is characteristic only of old men. I think that if people began thinking about death sooner, they'd make fewer foolish mistakes.

- Dmitri Shostakovich

topic: Mistake, Struggle, Writing, Writing And Thinking, Foolish Mistakes