Brent Runyon Quotes

One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

Life changed at 40 for me, as predicted by my acting teacher when I was leaving college. I became more hirable and more interesting... I'm not sure why.

It wasn't until I went to college and met different people from different areas of life - and then went to San Francisco and met people who really knew who the hell they were - that I kind of caught up in a hurry.

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.

Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or in a social situation.

Ellis's understanding of himself and the world around him certainly develops because of his adventures, and part of that development comes through recognizing other people for what they are.

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

Through the Thou a person becomes I.

By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless - and a little bored - and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself.

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now.

I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life.

The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with others.

There were always moments where I'd say, 'What else can I do with my life?' But when I was 30 years old and discovered I could write - I wrote 'Black Cloud' in six weeks - it opened up a whole new world for me.

In fact I spent a lot of time in my childhood trying to figure out what other people wanted of me. That made me study other people very much. Then I actually started university and I got quite bored. This is when I found out I wanted to be an actor.

I personally can barely remember what I was like before I came to college, what made me happy or worried or confident. I don't remember what I expected in my future, except that 'President of the United States' was about halfway up the ladder.

A novel, especially a first novel, is... really an emotional autobiography. All these emotions I'm embarrassed at having had, I've written about.

My journey to working on loneliness was certainly not an expected one or planned one.

It's a slow process rewriting your own life in your head. I think that's a writerly thing.

If I would have not been in films, I would have become an anti-social element.

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.

The first question in any interactive process with another is: now Who Am I, and Who Do I Want to Be, in relationship to that?

I'm getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.