Amanda Harlech Quotes

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

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

Writing is the supreme solace.

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

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

Part of my therapy is to write.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

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.

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.

I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

Writing is a type of therapy for me. I'm always trying to break down what happened, and why I felt a certain way.

I do a lot of journaling.

'Shortcomings' was me figuring out who I am.

Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.