Quotes About Reflection

Isn't that what writing is about? The constant attempt to understand the world?

When we are away from home, our only constant companion is our self.

I write constantly about everything.

When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

There is a little bit of me in every part I do... I'm not really good enough to completely construct an all-new character.

I try to spend as little time thinking about myself as possible. I find that's not a constructive way to live.

So many things will happen, for better or worse, in your career, and it's very easy for those things to bog you down or consume you. But when you get a chance to look back, you realize that those were not the things that were really important.

I'd be lying if I said that I took it all very calm and cool when my 12-year-old marriage broke up. I did feel angry, bitter, sad, but I didn't let them consume me.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

A lot of my day is consumed with how I look.

I think of myself as just another consumer.

I have always enjoyed dressing up, but I don't do it as often as I would want to, because it's time consuming.

The last thing I do before bed is think I should take my contacts out. Then I fall asleep.

My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put into the novel.

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

I couldn't even contemplate anyone even making a film about my life!

You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago.

In 2013, I didn't work at all, just contemplating what I needed to do, whether I was walking in my destiny or not.

I was honestly contemplating retirement. A lot of people don't know that, but I was done.

By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, 'Well, so-and-so will like this,' which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.

I read very little contemporary anything.

I never have that 'we were robbed' feeling when looking around now at where some of our contemporaries are.

I'm interested in teasing out the contemporary issues in what I'm working on, however old the piece might be, whenever I'm working on it.