Quotes About Insight

I don't go in search of ideas; I try to let them find me.

I think every writer is in search of the truth. We are trying to psychoanalyze ourselves.

The search for information gives me more confidence, because confidence arises from understanding.

I'm always searching. It's the reason I'm here. It's not really about music: it's about searching for meaning.

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

I saw Cruyff at 36 and the way he played was interesting because he was so quick to understand situations. Football can still be very nice at that age because even though you are not as strong or as quick, you can still see things that others see two seconds later.

You can't judge people for what you see for two seconds.

I've realized that I owe people a look behind the scenes of my own story, because I don't think anyone can have a true understanding of the music without an insight into where it came from.

The mind cannot foresee its own advance.

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

The older you get, of course, the knowingness of the truth - the ownership of knowing - is louder.

This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.

It's just a matter of me opening up the page and whatever is written on the page, that's what I'm here to do.

When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.

I read a lot of scripts, so I know by page 25 if I like it or not.

I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.

What's on the page dictates a lot of what I do. When the words are there, it's easy.

Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

For me, artists are the world's pain receptors. That is why they have such a hard time living.

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.

There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

Paint the essential character of things.

What I love to do is paint people's faces, y'know, their eyes. Because you want to find that emotion, see what's going on behind their eyes.