Quotes About Introspection

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.

Silence is so accurate

Philosophers should be offered condolences rather than encouragement.

On every long run that has gone right, there comes a point where thinking stops and thoughts begin.

La culpa no la tiene ninguna de las personas a las que llamo amigos, sino yo. Me falta algo. Y con el paso de los años me he ido dando cuenta poco a poco de que las decisiones que he tomado y la vida que he vivido han sido una respuesta a esa falta. Lo más significativo de mí, supongo, es lo que me falta.

The meaning of life — that is something for a simpler time.

Running, I shall argue, is a way of understanding what is important or valuable in life.

On the long run, there is an experience of freedom, of a certain sort — the freedom of spending time with the mind.

When you write, bleed copiously from an open wound. Write from the depths of your heart.

The irony of writing is that it's a solitary profession in which the lone writer tries to address universal human concerns.

In writing, you learn about the mystery of yourself. In reading you learn about the mystery of the world. Do both and you'll learn much.

A novel is the final common pathway of a writer's experiences, fears, wishes, thoughts, feelings & fantasies. All is distilled in a novel.

A writer must learn to be comfortable with buried, shadowy currents deep in the mind, those that form dreams & make hidden connections.

A writer's fiefdom is the entire world--everything seen, heard, felt & thought--all augmented by imagination.

I've never met a writer who hasn't been filled with self-doubt

As a writer, you write about the world as you see it, and about yourself in disguise.

Writing brings the unanticipated act of self-discovery. Reading does, too, for one who's receptive.

I read for pleasure, to expand my world, to learn more, to live outside myself, yet enrich my inner life.

Downer: When the searing prose of the night before reads so bleakly pedestrian in the cold light of morning

When you walk, cherish the silence. Let your mind wander. The child within picks up crayons & begins to write.

A writer's most potent tools are the inner mind and the shameless courage to explore it.

The world is exactly as it appears, if only you look hard enough.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

My writing is how I maintain.