A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.
Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
When I'm too worn out or in pain, I lie in bed and write in my mind.
The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
When you write, you put your thoughts in the public space. You get both positive and negative feedback.
... 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.
Every thought and word that a novelist thinks or writes is part of that castle constructed from sands on the beach of Me, including the turret or rampart or moat he may have thought or written on behalf of someone or something else.
The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now.
My goal before I die is to get all of my thoughts out.
You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.
I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions.
Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.
