Quotes About Reflection

Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave.

I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why I made them than my good deeds and my achievements.

To be good to yourself ... Sometimes it seems that takes a special talent all its own.

Fortunately, like all good things, Christmas Day does come to an end.

It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.

I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.

It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things.

I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

America is a great country, and we've done a lot of good in the world. But we are a collection of people, not saints. We have our own sins to atone for.

Sometimes good things the best things coincide fall apart.

In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown

Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.

I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.

You need a temple to feel good spiritually? Go to a beautiful garden!

Bed is a good friend; book is a good friend; night is a good friend. Try to bring them all together.

Night is a very good and very close friend of a writer!

I can see how some people get sentimental about how we used to do things in 'the good old days' but in a way I just think they are being nostalgic for the way they were brought up.

When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem.

There are writers I know and respect who are very good about what's outside, and not too hot about what's inside.

I'm many things: I'm a convicted rapist, I'm a hell-raiser, I'm a father, a loving father. I'm a semi-good husband...I'm pretty much a tyrant-titan.

Walking is very good for writers. There's something fundamentally useful about not talking to anybody, not looking at a screen, and being in nature - even if that nature is an urban environment.

I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.

I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.

I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at.