Roddy Ricch Quotes

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.

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.

The best thing you can do when you're not feeling funny is go out and get more stimuli from the world, get out and walk around, read a book, go talk to some birds or a dog and replenish the well, as it were.

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.

Also, I think having that comic gene kind of makes you look at things in a different way. If you take yourself so seriously, eventually you end up one of those people having a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on their lives. You see them drawing the curtains and they don't even realize that they've kind of drifted off somewhere.

I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.

Writing makes you more human.

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

I wanted to communicate and connect. I simply didn't seem able to do it.

No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.

I try to be thoughtful when I speak but not edited. I make mistakes, but people like vulnerability.

People that don't talk are constipated. I'm sorry, but if you can't communicate, what do you have? You have nothing.

How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

It takes effort to not be lonely.

But I was a sensitive kid. A funny kid, and a perceptive one. There was a lot of time spent alone.

Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction of free sociability electrifies it to such an extent that the most gentle stimulus of friendly or hostile contact elicits from it lightning sparks, luminous flashes, or shattering blows.

I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.

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.

I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

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

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.