Oscar Wilde Quotes

Everything I write is about me.

I find myself a fascinating subject.

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.

I'm not usually drawn to memoir - many run the risk of self-aggrandizement or score-settling.

A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.

I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

I don't think I necessarily am prepared to write about anybody else's life but mine.

We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.

My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.

I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. But I think you kind of have to be.

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

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

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

I'm really bad at describing my own life.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

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

Don't you think it's something strange that you rarely look at yourself in the mirror, except to do things like stand and ponder? I mean, in Shakespeare's day, it was thought that the mirror would reveal something, that it is trying to tell you something - not just to tidy your hair, but something more.

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

I feel like I have a kind of mirror blindness where it's hard for me to characterize or analyze my own work. I suspect I'm not unique in this regard.