Warren Buffett Quotes

Writing, for me, is the great organiser. It's while writing that I think most deeply about things.

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, that's all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions.

Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed.

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

... writing had become an essential element of the process of thinking. Not until I had put my thoughts down on paper could I examine them with objectivity.

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.

When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some order, and writing fiction is the only way I've found that seems to begin to do that.

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

I don't know what I think until I write it down.

Without a pen in my hand I can't think.

Writing forces consciousness.

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

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

I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.

I could not think without writing.

The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

I am fully intelligent only when I write. I have a certain amount of small-change intelligence, which I carry round with me as, at any rate in a town, one has to carry small money, for the needs of the day, the non-writing day. But it seems to me I seldom purely think ... if I thought more I might write less.

Writing lets you step back and think through a problem. Even the angriest rant forces the writer to achieve a degree of thoughtfulness.

Writing is thinking in slow motion.