Steven Wilson Quotes

Everything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life.

Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it incorporates the culture in which the interactions took place.

This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings.

Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own and very much based on my experiences at the University of Southern California.

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.

You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.

I'm not perfect. This is how I was raised. If I wasn't in the industry, I'd be the same person.

There are many things in common with my life and my character in 'American Crime.' My upbringing has definitely helped me out in this role.

I think you are a product of the environment you surround yourself in, and everything you've experienced is a part of you and the fabric you are in.

I think that style, taste, and choices in general are forged by everything that surrounds you - everything you see, taste, touch, smell and hear. So of course, my family has influenced me as a person and in my own style, but so have all the experiences that I went through as an individual.

You can never really tell what your influences are.

There's a lot of people I take stuff from, and it's mostly bad guys in movies.

Why am I who I am? It's the way I was raised.

I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.

An inanimate being is, of course, continuous with its surroundings; but the environing circumstances do not, save metaphorically, constitute an environment. For the inorganic being is not concerned in the influences which affect it.

It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all the ways you are wrong, and all the nuances you failed to account for, and all the truths that turned out to be not as simple as you once believed. And it seems to me that one of the central pleasures of attending school is that you get to read with really well-informed people who can help welcome you into a complex world stuffed with rich and maddening ambiguity.

other people maay be there to help us, teach us, guide us aolng our path, But the lesson to be learned is always ours

My mother has been to Mecca to perform her hajj; my dad hasn't. I come from a very liberal family, so even the people who are outwardly religious tend to subscribe to gender equality, the importance of open-mindedness, all that stuff. My family is generally nonprescriptive.

I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.

Most of your desires are not really about yourself. You just picked them up from your social surroundings.

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

When people ask me my influences and I'm like, "nobody" they're like, "there has to be somebody." People seem to think you have to have an influence.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

A person who knows who they are is not threatened by the beliefs of others.