self-awareness Quotes

It's a weakness of mine to forget what it is I've just been talking about so that when people make witty allusions to it, I stare at them open-mouthed, not knowing what they're talking about.

A novel is not a play. A novel takes one reader at a time into its confidence. It can be shockingly personal. Private, even.

I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.

I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?