Lynn Nottage Quotes

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

Put your choices in perspective.

Life can only be understood backwards.

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

When you reflect, you are able to put an experience into perspective... reflective thinking enables you to distance yourself from the intense emotions of particularly good or bad experiences and see them with fresh eyes.

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.

Sometimes you don't understand what you're going through until you're on the other side of it.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

It was difficult for me because I was searching for the answer for so long, and the answer was right in front of me. Do what I do best.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

Certain things give you another perspective in life.

I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.

When you have a fresh point of view that comes from the right side of the heart, it's just so valuable. You can take it or not take it, but just that perspective can give you a lot of strength or make you reflect on a lot of things.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

O, would some Power give us, To see ourselves as others see us!

There's something to be said about being able to be retrospective about a certain age as opposed to just in it.

It's funny: 'Next Thing' was written in a time of my life when I was actually really naive and thought that I was wise.

My life experience has made me realise what's important and what is not.