V. S. Naipaul Quotes

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.

I lost myself, and a lot of characters I played, I have latched onto some of their identities just because I was so lacking in anything of my own.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

There's a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is. And it never stops.

Some people spend their whole lives looking for themselves, yet our self is the one thing we surely cannot lose (how like a cheap philosopher I am become, staying in this benighted place). From the moment we are conceived it is the pattern in our blood and our bones are printed through with it like sticks of seaside rock. Nora, on the other hand, says that she’s surprised anyone knows who they are, considering that every cell and molecule in our bodies has been replaced many times over since we were born.

I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

I don't think one moment in somebody's life is going to define them.

I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.

I felt that with 'In A Perfect World' I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.

It took me a while to find myself.

I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.

I went through a few phases of finding myself: I dabbled in musical theater, chess club, dance troupe, splatter-painting, school mascot (go Wildcats), babysitter, photojournalist, drill team girl, emo kid - and not one of them defined me, but every single one will always play a part in who I am.

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

I'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad.

Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

No, I feel like my personality probably influenced the character, more than the character influenced me.

I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.

To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.