Richelle Mead Quotes

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.

At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

You're always thinking, "What does that add up to?" You can't really get a handle on it. I was curious. I felt like it would be an interesting challenge for me to write down what I'd seen and done and learned - all the convolutions captured in one item that I could look at and get some grip on what the hell happened.

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

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.

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

The biographer has two lives: The one she leads, and the one she ultimately understands.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

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

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.

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 write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.

I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

We are wiser than we know.

Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and deeper into a person.