A Quote by Joseph Epstein

For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery

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Joseph Epstein
American - Writer
Born: January 9, 1937

Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.

Edward Albee

The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination is the discovery of likenesses between two things which were thought unlike. An example is Newton’s thinking of the likeness between the thrown apple and moon sailing majestically in the sky. Hence, the ‘discovery’ of the laws of gravity.

Jacob Bronowski

For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.

Adam Mansbach

What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all of us, not just writers, there is a sort of knowledge of the other. We have a lot more in common than we realize, and I think writing is really a sustained act of empathy.

Andre Dubus

So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.

Pico Iyer

Writing is the act of discovery.

Natalie Goldberg

It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.

N. K. Jemisin

The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.

Marvin Bell

Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.

Edward Albee

What I like about writing a stand alone novel is you're starting with a fresh world and fresh characters. Part of what I love about writing is that journey of discovery where it's all new to me as well.

Michael Koryta

There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.

William Godwin

Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.

John Dewey

I've been writing long enough to know that fiction, as a rhetorical mode, works very differently from expository writing. If an author has a specific critique about contemporary society in mind, fiction tends not to be the best means to deliver that critique.

Ken Liu

Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery.

Natalie Goldberg

Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to me in those moments when I am immersed so deeply in the act of thinking and writing that everything else, even flesh, falls away.

bell hooks

What I believe is that people have many modes in which they can be. When we live in cities, the one we are in most of the time is the alert mode. The 'take control of things' mode, the 'be careful, watch out' mode, the 'speed' mode - the 'Red Bull' mode, actually. There's nothing wrong with it. It's all part of what we are.

Brian Eno

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