translate English to French: I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them (although sometimes I do wonder, idly, how much of what I imagined on that journey I had forgotten by the time I actually got my hands on a pen).
Je pense que si j'avais dû ralentir le flot d'idées afin de les noter, certaines ne seraient peut-être jamais apparues (même si je me demande parfois combien de détails imaginés durant ce trajet se sont évaporés avant que je mette la main sur un stylo).