William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

I do actually enjoy the process of putting my thoughts down on paper and having people actually read them.

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.

Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and what we're most concerned about in the world around us. We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the live, breathing, bleeding place where the picture forms, and where it all begins.

I write constantly about everything.

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

For me, writing is a parenthesis where I can make sense of life.

When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.

I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.

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

Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us.

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

I like to take all my feelings and thoughts and put them down in different ways on paper.

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

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

And, of course, there were some times when I had writer's block and I had a hard time figuring out how to express what I wanted to express.

I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.

Writing in my closet, it's a small space but it made a lot of room in my mind.

I've said very openly that the first aspect of my artistry to arrive was writing. It took me a good number of years to find my voice.

During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.

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.

Today when I begin writing I’m aware: something that I don’t understand drives this engine.

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.

I never thought I could write this much and now that it's coming to an end, I feel sad that I have to stop, sort of the way you feel at the end of a really good book and you know you're going to miss the main character. But in this case, the main character is me! Myself. Joe (formerly JoDan) Bunch. —Joe Bunch

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