Jeremy Collier Quotes

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

Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.

These glorious things-words-are man's right alone...Without words we should know no more of each other's hearts and thoughts than the dog knows of his fellow dog....for, if you will consider, you always think to yourself in words, though you do not speak them aloud; and without them all our thoughts would be mere blind longings, feelings which we could not understand ourselves.

I could not think without writing.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

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

I find it easier to tell someone what's in my head once it's on paper, rather than write with someone in mind.

Sometimes writing it is a good way to understand something.

Writing, for me, is an extension of thinking - it's my way of processing, and only when I've gotten something down on the page have I thought through it fully.

But there are definitely times when I just need to write to clarify my thoughts and put any doubts to bed.

No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regards to logic or chronological sequence.

Everything I think is in pictures.

Unless a person knows how to give order to her thoughts, attention will be attracted to whatever is most problematic at the moment.

Thinking isn't something you think about. It comes naturally. Thinking involves many things. It involves being an observer. It involves analyzing things, taking in what's around you in the world and finding how to make it inspire your work or turn it into a lesson to teach your children; it's paying attention to details. That's what thinking is: processing.

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.

You think, you don't just speak. The lines come off the thoughts.

I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.

Part of you just has to be in service of processing things and getting them out.

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