Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

That's all you have to ask from yourself writing a book. That it's the best you can do and that you did it without any ego involved and that you did it for somebody else. That's the best you can do.

I've always been a writer, actually. Not many people assume that, but I kinda keep quiet about anything that I do until I'm ready to show it. It keeps me humble and also makes me work towards a goal.

Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.

If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no longer know whether I still think what I think.

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

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.

I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose.

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

As an artist, I think it's important to always keep growing, and I definitely want to keep challenging myself.

I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it.

Writing makes you more human.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Welcome every talent, hail every invention, cherish every gem of art—foster every gleam of authorship, honor every acquirement and every natural gift, lift ourselves to the level of our destinies...

I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.

I love to push myself! Stepping outside of my comfort zone is what will make me a better artist.

I am my own worst critic, and I look at 'Death Sentence' now, and I go, 'Oh wow, I have really come a long way.' In terms of a filmmaker, I feel like my filmmaking language has really matured.

I'm not there to tailor the role to me: I'm there to tailor me to the role. That guarantees me something, a precious thing, which is creativity. I'm guaranteed that I will have a creative experience, because I will go to it, not demand that it comes to me.

I've definitely grown and evolved as a person, as an artist, you know. Just in terms of my style, my taste, my influences, everything... That's a part of being an artist I think.

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.

I learn everything with my every film. If we stop learning, we would stop growing as an actor.