Don DeLillo Quotes

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

I try to write an essay every time I speak.

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

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

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

The keyboard is my journal.

With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

Ink is the transcript of thought.

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

When you have an important story to tell, the words you need seem to come of their own accord.

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

He who writes badly thinks badly

It doesn't need to be imagined, it needs to be written down.

It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.

Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.

A pen connects you to the paper. It definitely matters.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

Language is a nice way to remember things.