“Your questions are false if you already know the answer.”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 111 of 303
“The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.”
“Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.”
“If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.”
“Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life.”
“The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.”
“Ive never seen myself as a fantasy writer-ever.”
“Activity does not necessarily equal progress.”
“It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.”
“Having the ability to get and gain respect through your work is great but you have to be careful not to get carried away.”
“I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it.”
“In the glare of your mind, be modest. And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.”
“And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea — some news of your own life. But the lilies are slippery and wild—they are devoid of meaning, they are simply doing, from the deepest spurs of their being, what they are impelled to do every summer. And so, dear sorrow, are you.”
“At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.”
“We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.”
“We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping.”
“I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.”
“That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.”
“Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world.”
“Wherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself. Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.”