Expressing Thoughts Quotes

The art of writing is the art of doing what you think you're doing. This is not as simple as it sounds. It implies a very difficult undertaking: the necessity to think. And it implies the requirement to think out three separate, very hard problems: What is it you want to say? How are you going to say it? Have you really said it?

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

I've said all that I've had to say.

... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.

For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.

How I wish I were able to say what I think.

We have our own thoughts, and if we want others to know them, we must tell them.

Let's not talk about it any more, but if you still want anything please write to me about it, because I can say what I mean much better on paper.

It seems to me, though, that you always understand very well what I can't say very well. Trouble is I end up being even worse at saying things well.

I vocalize a lot of my feelings.

One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself to write about it and putting it down in words, you can't avoid having your say on the subject. You might be wrong, but you have to think about it very intensely to write about it.

One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words.

I have something to tell you." "How, you have something to tell me?" "You have understood me exactly." "Well, I am listening." "Listening? Then, you wish me to tell you?" "Yes, that is it. I am listening, and therefore I wish you to tell me." "Shall I tell you now?" "No.

I'm busy communicating ideas.... I want you to know what I'm thinking. If you feel a connection, good. If you don't, fine.

letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.

I want to tell you,' the voice on the phone said. 'My head is filled with things to say.' ... 'I don't mind,' Hal said softly. 'I could wait forever.' 'That's what you think,' the voice said. The connection was cut.

All talking is good, negative and positive. Stabbing is bad; talking is good.

Shut up and say something.

I have so many things I want to say.

I know what I think but I don't know how to put it into words. Maybe I could get a little bit drunk and dance it for you.

The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.

Half the time I don't know what I'm trying to say.

I thought clarity of communication was the most important thing in writing, and if you really cared about getting your idea across, you would say it in the most straightforward way possible. Later, in college and grad school, I came to realize that language is a technology like any other, and that it's always evolving - clarity of expression is always evolving.

If a person has never given writing a try, they assume that a brilliant idea is hard to come by. But really, even if it takes some digging, ideas are out there. Just open your eyes and look at the world. Writing the ideas down, it turns out, is the real trick.