Quotes About Insight

What is important is not getting intoxicated with a good feeling or getting intoxicated even with an insight. These take many forms in our practice. We go through times of great release, where there has been physical holding for what feels like forever, and something opens up and releases.

As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular 'hook' upon which to hang the missive you are burning to release.

There's a lot of clarity in hindsight.

What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'

I feel like, a lot of times, you make music, and you don't really understand why until with hindsight.

Art is made in hindsight.

Hindsight is, of course, 20/20. Any time you go back, and you look at something, and now you've got the result of something, you say, 'Yeah, maybe it wasn't the right idea.'

I like to know how I'm supposed to feel about things. Just a little clue or hint.

As a historian, I always think you know what a moment was 20 years later.

The best writers attempt to become alternative historians.

There are very few critics who have historical context or authority.

I love being educated by historical novels.

One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.

History is the best guide to the future.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

You learn more from the flops than from the hits.

I draw whatever hits me.

When life hits you hard, it can throw you off course. But how you handle that adversity can teach you so much about yourself and change your perspective on what you actually want from life.

If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby.

No matter who the captain is, on the hockey pitch it's the goalkeeper who is leading the side because we have the best view of the field.

I'm pretty sure Michael Holding doesn't know anything that is going on behind the scenes.

I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.

When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.

I always try and think about what the 'hood would say when I do things.