Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

Most things I go through I have to write about.

When you're writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You're dealing with emotions and thoughts that are native to you. So that probably winds up in your characters.

I write to discover what I think.

Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

Thank God for being a writer, because you do sort of find out what you think by the process of writing.

Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me.

All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced to really examine things.

Writing has certainly helped me explore about 20,000 versions of my authentic self. I suppose that's what most writers discover if they write long enough: there are a lot of selves roaming around in there.

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

I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so.

The most real dialogue for me is when I am alone, writing.

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.

The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.

If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to work it through, for me, is to write it.

The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who you are, to know what you think. You begin to have a relationship with your mind.

I write to discover what I know.

I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that pen in your hand. It's a strange, almost neurological phenomenon, and the words seem to generate more words - but only when you're writing. You can't do it in your head.