Mindful Writing Quotes

Writing is thinking in slow motion.

I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Never mind the misses and the stumbles.

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

I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.

The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.

I'm more cautious about what I write.

I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in my head.

If you think about what you do, if you become self-conscious about it, you've got to be very careful. Because I really like to write without self-awareness of what I'm doing.

Writing is difficult all the time; the thing is to learn something every day.

When you handwrite something, you're writing your most raw, pure thoughts. If you want to change it, then you have to mark it out, and people can see you laboring over that thought. I think even the act of hand, pen, and paper is much more intimate than with a computer screen.

I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.

Typing is no substitute for thinking.

I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.

Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position.

When I write, I tend to tap into this human wondering vibe that could come off negative, but it's really not.

I think if a writer is not endeavoring to expand and alter consciousness in himself and in his readers, he is not doing much of anything. It is precisely words, word lines, lines of words and images, and associations connected with these word and image lines in the brain, that keep you in present time, right where you are sitting now.

I consider writing a legitimate Zen practice.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.

I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least when you're starting an idea.