Winston Graham Quotes

I'm an introspective dude.

You learn a lot about yourself just by writing it down.

I'm a very introspective individual.

I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?

I am not very introspective.

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

I find myself a fascinating subject.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.

I am always writing to myself.

I've never been great at being really analytical about myself.

I don't analyse myself.

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

I try not to be super self-referential about my work because it becomes like navel gazing at a certain point.

That inner narrative - the desire to understand the way I am - never really switches off.

Writing on 'Love' is so steeped in self-analysis. The writer's room can feel like therapy.

I like the state of being self-aware, it's interesting when you start to look at your own habits.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.

One of the goals of analysis is you become your own analyst. You continue the process even if you're not in therapy, whether you continue the process by walking down the street thinking about things or whether you continue the process, as I do, by writing about them.

Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart.