I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.
“When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.”
“Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.”