Oh no worries; I am not trying to pick bones, just offer my perspective (: I realize you were quoting another source, I just get slightly annoyed by the phrase

Oh no worries; I am not trying to pick bones, just offer my perspective (: I realize you were quoting another source, I just get slightly annoyed by the phrase "writing is thinking" and its various other permutations that come up. For me, that is very much not the case. I agree that writing/speech is the normal way to answer a (written/spoken) question. It's how I would clumsily describe my thoughts to someone in that circumstance. But it is not how I would form those thoughts. Though I have also had conversations with people basically saying they can't imagine thinking without words — the two are one and the same, to them. Lots of weird brains out there; I enjoy it.