Trenton Lee Stewart Quotes

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.

As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.

I never thought I could write this much and now that it's coming to an end, I feel sad that I have to stop, sort of the way you feel at the end of a really good book and you know you're going to miss the main character. But in this case, the main character is me! Myself. Joe (formerly JoDan) Bunch. —Joe Bunch

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.

When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.

When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it's all part of making sense of who I am.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

France was very opposite of the show-business experience I'd been living; I was anonymous and alone. I wore no makeup, wore the same clothes every day. And I wrote and wrote and wrote.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

For me, writing is a parenthesis where I can make sense of life.

I carry a notebook and write down things to do, and I write out thoughts and stuff like that.

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.

I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

The words come from here. From memories, from dreams, from people I've known. I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.

You learn a lot about yourself just by writing it down.

There are things that you write when you're 20 and there are things that you write when you're 40 and then there are things that you write when you're old.

When I'm out having the experiences, that's exactly what I'm doing: having the experiences. Then I can later reflect and write.