Jerry Saltz Quotes

When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.

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.

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

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 what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I can find out some of what I think about any number of situations. I work it out in the writing.

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

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

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.

Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.

The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.

In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and myself. But even when I do that there's an element of disappearing to a place that's not me. It's "the selflessness of writing". It seldom happens, but when it does it's worth quite a lot.

I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.

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

Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

I don't know why I write what I write.

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

I am always writing to myself.

Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas.

I realized that I've always been a storyteller.

Whatever's going on in my life shows up in the writing room.