Quotes About Introspection

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

If you look at the body of any writers' work, you can figure out the questions that animate them. I think that is what real writers do. They don't tell people how to live or what to think. They write in order to try to answer their own deepest questions.

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

I feel things deeply.

I know how deeply slothful I am.

They say that the best form of defence is attack, but maybe I have to take a look at how I defend.

I wasn't a defender and I didn't think of myself as one.

I find myself bitter, defensive, and more misanthropic than I care to admit.

Sometimes I look at myself and ask, 'What is my best position?' But I think it's a defensive midfielder; that's the best one.

I always define egotistical thoughts as the thoughts I think other people have of me.

You don't want to have a character say what's bothering him; you want to define characters by action.

I'm interested in how we understand ourselves in our relatioships and how we define ourselves.

I have lived life enough to know that I define myself.

We define our success internally.

I find it hard to define myself.

Today, I defined 'sentimental' to myself as a feeling about the idea of a feeling.

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

I'm very open to being defined.

In terms of my work, I've never been reticent in terms of defining my sexuality. I write about my life.

Sometimes, the actual feeling of loving someone takes a back seat because we are busy defining it.

When I think of myself, I'm definitely... I'm not like a comedian.

I can't define myself. And I'm really happy about this, that I'm not able to make a definition of, even of my work.

I am a degenerate, and I know that.

All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.