"interior thoughts" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to someone's private or personal thoughts, as opposed to their thoughts that they share with others. Example: She put on a brave face, but her interior thoughts were filled with insecurity and self-doubt.
Washburn separates the poems clearly from the prose — something Waley did not do — and puts the interior thoughts in italics, instead of injecting words like "he thought" or "she wondered".
My interior thoughts remained fluid, but the words to express them had vanished into some neurological Bermuda Triangle.
So we have the interior thoughts of a man whose profoundest identity seems to exist only through other people's eyes.
And yet the last sentence returns to the interior thoughts of the narrator, asking, "Hadn't I been glad enough?" What should we take from that?
Capturing her subjects through a telephoto lens, Ms. Yokomizo never met any of the participants, yet the resulting prints in her "Dear Stranger" series practically telegraph their interior thoughts.
The various genres of poetry express different facets of the Idea of humanity: lyric poetry (including song) expresses the interior thoughts and feelings of humanity as a whole; the novel, epic and drama are more "objective" types of literature which express the Idea of humanity through the portrayal of significant characters in significant situations.
An essay about the treatment of interior thought in fiction ("I Said to Myself") succeeds in treating the subject with a mixture of levity and hand-wringing seriousness.
He said that he attempts to "go for something... very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which is essentially a third-person medium".
Mr. Lang, who compiled the text, was motivated by his fascination with the Internet as a "public, searchable storage place for the interior and semiprivate thoughts of billions of people," he writes in a program note.
Mickalene Thomas' works range from paintings of fractured interior spaces to thought-provoking riffs on famous works of art, yet her themes remain consistent.
In a book, an isolated character can speak his thoughts through interior monologue, or the third-person narrator can tell the reader what the character is feeling and thinking.
