Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes

I write to discover what I think.

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

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.

I write to find out what I think.

If I was going to write something, I'd need to stop for three months and just see if I had any thoughts in there.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

I write a lot in my head. I've never been driven to write things down.

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.

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

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

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.

I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.

I write to find out what I'm talking about.

When we write we begin to taste the texture of our own mind

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

I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally, I try to balance that - that I'm asking these questions of myself, how does this work, why does this happen, what's going on here.

Most things I go through I have to write about.

A lot of writing is thinking.

I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.

I've always believed that you write to discover what you think. On most subjects, if I'm asked what do I think about them, I'd say I don't know, I'll have to write them down.

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