Don DeLillo Quotes

It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.

I write to discover what I think.

I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.

I write to find out what I think.

If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to work it through, for me, is to write it.

Writing is always a way, for me, of coming to some sort of understanding that I can't reach otherwise.It forces you to think. It forces you to work the thing through. Nothing comes to us out of the blue, very easily.

I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.

I write to find out what I'm talking about.

Writing helped me understand what I was thinking about.

It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.

I think that writing is a process that tells you what you think. You sometimes actually don't know what your opinion is until you hear yourself trying to piece it out and have it make sense to you. The process itself is so bizarre and mysterious that you never know what it's going to tell you.

The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who you are, to know what you think. You begin to have a relationship with your mind.

I think to the degree writers are serious, there is a greater tendency for them to write to themselves, because they're trying to compose their own thoughts. They are trying to find out what is in their minds, which is the great mystery. Finding out who you are, what is in your head, and what kind of companion you are to yourself in the course of life. I do think people have very profound lives of which they say virtually nothing.

I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

We don't know what we think until we see what we say.

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

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.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

The most real dialogue for me is when I am alone, writing.