Sloane Crosley Quotes

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.

I think that between 27 and 37 was a really big learning decade.

Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and deeper into a person.

All I have are my experiences, and I like to share my experiences to see if people could learn from them.

I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human.

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

As you mature, you start reading and studying and researching, you start to really know what life is about.

It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected.

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child.

Everything is an experience. You learn something different from everything you do.

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.

I do like playing the darker side of life but as much as the lighter side as well. They all resonate out of the same place, which is that everyone has a story to tell. Depending on their upbringing and their history, it determines who they are as an adult. My job is to take the role from there.

I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people around me, so you just sort of keep this antenna up and on the lookout for things to say.

When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My pen simply caught them and set the words on paper. I typed them up and turned them into a newspaper column of the 45 lessons life taught me. When I hit 50, I added five more lessons and the paper ran the column again.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.

When I was doing 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' I was asked, 'If there was one part of your life that you could erase, what would it be?' And I was so stunned by that. I thought: 'Nothing.' I would keep all the good bits and the bad bits, because those things made me who I am.