Quotes About Introspection

With the way I like to work, I always have to draw [inspiration] from somewhere, and the best place to take from is your own life.

For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.

Do thine own work, and know thyself.

I know it's an artistic cliche, but every time I look at my past work, I want to projectile vomit.

Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary.

You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.

There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.

There are no personal revelations other than feelings arising from the work itself

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

The best work that I am able to do is when I am willing to write about questions I haven't quite figured out, or things I'm really wrestling with, things that keep me up at night.

I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of my life...I dream too much, work too little.

One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.

Let women figure out why they won't sleep with you. Don't do their work for them.

We're always hardest on our own work, I guess.

No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my own faith and my own convictions in the seclusion of my own mind.

I've reached a place with my work where I'm ready to concentrate more on life.

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.

I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.

Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.

A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs.

Don't ask a writer what he's working on. It's like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.

I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.

Don't work out, work in.

I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.