Meryl Streep Quotes

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

The words come from here. From memories, from dreams, from people I've known. I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.

As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.

Having kids sets a bomb off in your life. It really makes you examine who you are, what you believe in and what you want to be. And that is magical for creativity.

It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

Enjoy the fashions, read the good articles, and when you feel threatened, turn your mental gaze inward, but keep your eyes on the road, or you won't know where you are going. Have a practice or discipline that lets you be in touch with your inner self, your soul.

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us.

It's a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages - the horrible side, the wonderful side, the adorable side - and who you are as a grownup. And then to bring what you learned as a child to that grownup: that is the magic of creativity.

When I started writing, I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.

With work and life, your true depth can become an alien thing to you. Your gut feelings, your instincts become buried.

What we are, the experiences we've had, come to the surface.

Now you see how you are, the wisdom mixed in with all the scars.

Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

I've found it easier to write, to coalesce my thoughts, since having children. It brings you back to what you experienced yourself as a child, and you empathize with what your parents went through.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

I love babies, and I have my nephews that I love. I have a great mom and she has raised three kids, so if I take lessons from her, I think I'll be great. All my friends have little brothers or sisters.

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.