Amy Heckerling Quotes

You can quite happily exist in your own version of the world built around you, which you can build for yourself.

I kind of write in my own little world.

I live in a world all my own, but visitors are always welcome.

Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.

I live in my own bubble. I'm in Gublerland.

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

I've always kind of lived in my own world.

I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know.

I am not a representative of anything. I have my opinions.

I have never liked the 'Been there done that' thing... You hear that all the time from people, and I think it's just based on pure insecurity... Each person is going to have their own unique take on something.

Writing is an amazing place to hide, to go into the rabbit hole, and pull the trap door down over your head.

Everybody has their thing they like or don't like to see. It's all in your head. That's why people take their own pictures, because it's difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

It's my world, and the rest of us are living in it.

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.

It's funny: I rarely reference anything, and I'm one of those people that doesn't really spend much time in other people's worlds. I just try and create my own and make it as distinctive as I can.

Everybody is their own galaxy, their own separate entity.

When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.

I really like individualism based on truth.

You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live.

I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it's my head I'm locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.

The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I write fiction, it is the chart by which I must steer.

I'm interested in what the virtues of all those things are, especially for the kind of person who's made their own world that revolves around them, like writers do. It seems especially precious.

Writing is really freeing because it's the only part of the process where it's just you and the characters and you are by yourself in a room and you can just hash it out. There are no limitations.