“…I am writing poems and they take the marrow of my energy. Things stir and buzz in my mind but do not get sorted out on paper. Today I want to think a little about loyalty, and it is a fact that I can think something out only by writing it. It is interesting that there is very little about loyalty under the heading in the Oxford Book of Quotations or in Bartlett; yet it must be one of the crucial concepts having to do with human relations, closely connected with trust. I am accused of disloyalty because I talk about things that many people would keep to themselves, and especially because I may discuss with people who ‘should not know’ a human situation in which I am involved. I am not at all discreet about anything that concerns feelings. My business is the analysis of feeling.”
— May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude
May Sarton is the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (May 3, 1912 – July 16, 1995), an American poet, novelist and memoirist. Painting by Polly Thayer Starr.
Three Chairs Publishing 
Interesting that Mary Sarton says she can only think something out by writing about it…I tend to do that, too!
You might enjoy this book, actually. She talked a lot about writing and the life of a creative. You can borrow mine when I’m done if you don’t mind copious underlines and dogears.