Articulating Thoughts Quotes

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

Good thoughts not delivered mean squat.

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you are talking about, what you are actually proposing. It gets you away from the catch phrases that not merely substitute for thought but preclude it.

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.

To write well it is first necessary to have something to say.

My teaching forces me to articulate what I think works in a piece of fiction and how I think it works. All of that gives me energy as a writer.

It is extremely natural for us to desire to see such our thoughts put into the dress of words, without which indeed we can scarce have a clear and distinct idea of them our selves.

If you want people to know what your message is, just sing it.

If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?

I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through the work I can say what I think.

If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.

Talk and action are two different things.

To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.

I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

I get an idea about something. I just start thinking about it, and then I get onstage and I talk about it, and then I think about it some more and talk about it some more, and think about it some more and talk about it some more, until it starts to take a shape.

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.

For me, language is about the impossibility of communicating what we precisely wish to communicate and this gorgeous attempt that we make to do that anyway. I love that we will never say exactly what we mean, but we will forever keep trying.

I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.

There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.

If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.

It's so hard to say what you really mean. For any number of reasons: to protect yourself, or if you just can't find the words.