Quotes About Introspection

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

The degree to which you're peculiar and different is the degree to which you must learn to hear people thinking. Just in self-defense you have to learn, where is their kindness? Where is their danger? Where is their generosity?

Actors are not always the best judges. We have a peculiar idea of what we think we are, and sometimes it's best left to others to decide what we play.

Having to think so much about fictitious relationships that work or don't work, and with each relationship between characters managing to do one or other of those in its own peculiar way, I spend a lot of time thinking about relationships, real and imagined.

I can say that I don't see myself with the foot on the gas pedal as hard as it's been down for 16 years.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

As a writer, I always peel back the layers, go to the most sensitive places uncomfortably close to the heart.

Am I a peer mediator? Not a chance.

I was a highly sensitive kid, sort of an old soul, and I felt like a lot of people in my peer group didn't fully understand me, or I couldn't fully be myself. I just wasn't engaged in a way that was fulfilling me.

I am not in competition with my peers; I am in competition with myself.

After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

One exercise I always do when I'm getting to know a character is ask her to tell me her secrets. Sit down with a pen and paper, and start with, 'I never told anybody...' and go from there, writing in the voice of your character.

What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs.

I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.

No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.

Hell is other people.

People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.

People say I'm bad at a lot of things. One I agree with is that I'm a bad driver.

I can't focus on what other people say about me.

No diss to any of my homies, but I pay very close attention to what people say about me.

A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.

A lot of people say I am serious, but I don't think I am.

People say you've got to be OK with your own company, but tell me why?