Interiority In Writing Quotes & Sayings

However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you. — John Buchanan Robinson

Humility is not an 'added extra,' one of the lesser Christian virtues. If you don't have humility, you may be lost. — Mark Dever

Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority. — Emily Gould

When I was a kid, you listened to a certain genre. Now it's like, "I love indie rock, I love hip-hop, jazz, funk." Also, we knew it couldn't be the same thing each year. — Jonathan Rhys Meyers

When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority. — Emily Gould

Technology's allowing the phone to start to see and understand much like how the human brain does. — Matt Mills

I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back ... but God has a bigger shovel! — R. G. LeTourneau

If courage is not there, if the possibility of things getting better is not there, listen a little harder. — Anne Lamott

I lay on the bowsprit, facing astern, with the water foaming into spume under me, the masts with every sail white in the moonlight, towering high above me. I became drunk with the beauty and singing rhythm of it, and for a moment I lost myself - actually lost my life. I was set free! I dissolved in the sea, became white sails and flying spray, became beauty and rhythm, became moonlight and the ship and the high dim-starred sky! I belonged, without past or future, within peace and unity and a wild joy, within something greater than my own life, or the life of Man, to Life itself! — Eugene O'Neill

As human beings living in this monstrously ugly world, let us ask ourselves, can this society, based on competition, brutality and fear, come to an end? Not as an intellectual conception, not as a hope, but as an actual fact, so that the mind is made fresh, new and innocent and can bring about a different world altogether? It can only happen, I think, if each one of us recognises the central fact that we, as individuals, as human beings, in whatever part of the world we happen to live or whatever culture we happen to belong to, are totally responsible for the whole state of the world. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them proliferate, and my songs have contributed a lot to that cause as well. — David Friedman