Writing and Thinking

Quote Investigator has found quotes that are close but not exact, so I have no attribution. All I can tell you is this has been true of me since I was 10 years old—which was a long time ago.

(1) I write to find out what I think.

(2) I don’t know what I think until I read what I write.

Comments

[Robert E. Malchman]

As I used to tell my legal writing students: Thinking is writing, and writing is thinking. It's a corollary to the rule that you never understand something as well as you can until you have to explain it to someone else. Writing is explaining it to the page or screen.