William Butler Yeats Quotes

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.

Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something in a song, I could probably express it in my real life, too.

Writing makes you more human.

I try and put myself in other peoples eyes, as I dont feel I've got anything new to say about myself at 23.

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

One of my problems is to find the self.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

I thought I was going to school to be other people, but really, what I learned was to be myself - accepting myself, my strengths and weaknesses.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.