There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
A lot of writing is thinking.