There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

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

A man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.

A man is what he thinks about all day long

Sir, a man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he’s worth something. And if I know for sure that I’m a genius? Why write then? What the hell for?

I do not know what I think until I write it.

No man knows fully what has shaped his own thinking

On one stave, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

It is not the hand but the understanding of a man that may be said to write.

What a man does not know is greater than he.