Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

I write a lot about myself.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?

Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

'M Train' is as close to knowing what I'm like as anything. I don't know exactly what the book is about. All and nothing, I suppose.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

Everything I write is about me.

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself.

I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

You only grow when you are alone.

My songs are just little letters to me.

I am always writing to myself.

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.

If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

I don't find myself intriguing.

When I write for myself, I think about myself and draw from my own experience.

I'm shocked at how much I can talk about myself.