Haruki Murakami Quotes

I write to find out what I think.

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.

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

It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.

Writing helped me understand what I was thinking about.

Sometimes writing it is a good way to understand something.

My only way of processing anything for me is by writing.

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.

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

I write to discover what I think.

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

You're always thinking, "What does that add up to?" You can't really get a handle on it. I was curious. I felt like it would be an interesting challenge for me to write down what I'd seen and done and learned - all the convolutions captured in one item that I could look at and get some grip on what the hell happened.

Writing is like paying myself a formal visit.

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

One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself to write about it and putting it down in words, you can't avoid having your say on the subject. You might be wrong, but you have to think about it very intensely to write about it.

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

We write to make sense of it all.

Writing lets you step back and think through a problem. Even the angriest rant forces the writer to achieve a degree of thoughtfulness.

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

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.

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.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

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

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.