Quotes About Introspection

Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.

Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.

I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.

I don't know if a novelist ever fully detaches him- or herself from what they wrote and the way they wrote it. I can watch 'Presumed Innocent' again and again, and I will always be bothered by the same things that will never bother anybody else.

I think if I was interested in writing on my own, I would be a novelist - then you could write about yourself, and that would be it. You wouldn't need anyone else.

Novelists are too often assumed to write veiled autobiography.

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows.

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out.

I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a long time for me to realize there are better ways.

When you have people catering to you non-stop, you lose it. You need someone to kick you in the butt every now and then!

I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.

I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.

Every now and then, I have a deep thought.

I don't meditate anymore, and I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist nowadays, though I do chant mantras here and there depending on the situation.

I feel like when I listen to music nowadays, it's a lot of commands. It's a lot of demands. Do this dance, or feel like this. It's not like, 'how do you feel?'

You really disconnect yourself from the world being in the middle of nowhere.

Took me a long time to know I was a nobody from nowhere.

I am nowhere near social media.

Creatively, I'm not one to advocate people knowing every little nuance about you sometimes.

There have been moments in my life when I've become numb to certain aspects of myself that I found frightening. Or I've conformed to certain morals of society and then maybe rebelled or found a way out.