Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
Writing is something that's great because you get to write every thought that's on your mind; you take your time.
Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill.
Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.
Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.
Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices they hear in their heads. Of course, self-talk is thinking, and writing begins with thinking.
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.
A lot of writing is thinking.
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.