Henry David Thoreau Quotes

The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.

not all thoughts have to become words!

Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It's always the unspoken word and what's happening behind someone's eyes that makes it so rich.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the form in cinema to dig deeper into human thoughts and emotions. And in a novel you can much more easily express a character's inner thoughts and feelings.

The characters I write about are very internal.

I'm interested in getting deep into a person's consciousness and doing so in ways in which the narrator is secondary to the character's own thoughts.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

I always write stories, and I write poems, too. I just never sell them to anybody, but I write them. They're good, too. They never leave the house. They're too disclosing.

I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

All of us are private to ourselves. Nobody ever really knows anybody else. Everybody in the world keeps something to themselves.

Occasionally, you might enjoy the luxury of an unexpressed thought.

In addition to psychopaths, 'Quantum Night' is also a novel about literally thoughtless people, without inner voices, thoughts in their heads.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

Most of my acting in general is about what's going on in the head, and the lines are just something that comes out.

Whatever part of writing that is subconscious is a thing that no one has access to.

I have a few theories and trains of thought that I wouldn't expose because they are not anyone's business. I hold them sacred, it's how I feel, it's my opinion, not up for debate, and not meant to be shared.

Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life.

Your silent thoughts are like the roots of a plant. They remain hidden in the dark recesses of the earth, but from them stems the whole plant--its life and form, its strength and beauty. From them and through them the plant lives and dies. So, too, your thoughts, although hidden, are your real, vital force.

It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface without a deliberate effort.

Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.