Jean Piaget Quotes

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

You have to have some kind of clarity or understanding of what's happening to write.

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

There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.

I think best with a pencil in my hand.

The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.

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

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

The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

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

Sometimes, I believe I actually see the wheels in my brain turning.

Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it.

I think that writing is a process that tells you what you think. You sometimes actually don't know what your opinion is until you hear yourself trying to piece it out and have it make sense to you. The process itself is so bizarre and mysterious that you never know what it's going to tell you.

You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us.

Writing is always a way, for me, of coming to some sort of understanding that I can't reach otherwise.It forces you to think. It forces you to work the thing through. Nothing comes to us out of the blue, very easily.

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.

I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.

I don't know what I think until I write it down.

Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more