Shereen El Feki Quotes

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

You learn a lot about yourself just by writing it down.

When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it's all part of making sense of who I am.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.

Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.

I never thought I could write this much and now that it's coming to an end, I feel sad that I have to stop, sort of the way you feel at the end of a really good book and you know you're going to miss the main character. But in this case, the main character is me! Myself. Joe (formerly JoDan) Bunch. —Joe Bunch

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.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

I used to love writing in my journal.

When I'm out having the experiences, that's exactly what I'm doing: having the experiences. Then I can later reflect and write.

I do a lot of journaling.

I've always kept a journal and brought storytelling into my teaching.

If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you; and then show your copy to whom you please.

I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget that I am writing for myself alone. Thus I shall always tell the truth, I hope, and thus I shall improve myself. These pages will reproach me for my changes of mind.

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

Part of my therapy is to write.

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

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

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