Expressing ideas helps to form them

If all you want to do is figure things out, why do you need to write anything, though? Why not just sit and think? Well, there precisely is Montaigne's great discovery. Expressing ideas helps to form them. Indeed, helps is far too weak a word. Most of what ends up in my essays I only thought of when I sat down to write them. That's why I write them.

  1. ​The situation talks back​
  2. ​Writing is one way to go about thinking​
  3. ​The discoveries you make in the making​