Quotes About Introspection

You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.

For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.

I do not know how much my own work has achieved, and I must not pretend it has done more than it has.

The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.

I have the incredibly good fortune of being able to make the majority of the work I produce in the world on my own with no one bothering me. It really comes entirely out of me.

When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

I think one of the hardest things about doing a book in the first person is that to a certain extent each day, when you begin to do your work, you're climbing into somebody else's skin.

the more visible my work became, the less visible I grew to myself.

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.

Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more.

What 'Twilight' gave me was years to consider how I wanted to work otherwise.

There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work with and to draw off of.

Never ask people about your work.

There are times where I've made mistakes or our administration hasn't always aligned ourselves with the values we need to align ourselves with. It's a work of constant improvement.

I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

The fact of the matter is I'm 21 now. I stay home. I feed my dogs. I don't really go out. I work.

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.

Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work.

If you really believe that you deserve better, work on you, not them.

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you

I get the feeling that sometimes the ideas work very well when you're doing them in the studio alone.

Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises you.

I'm the one I need to work with.