self-awareness Quotes

I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

'Stupidity' defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we've never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we've never felt stupider. We now collectively inhabit a state of stupidity.

I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice.

What do you despise? By this you are truly known.

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.