Sherwood Anderson Quotes

I always write about the things that haunt me, the questions I have.

I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me.

A lot of my music is kind of contemplative, and somehow that always tends to tilt on the darker side. My inner conversation is apparently quite dark.

People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.

We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was a rare sight below the waves, of a man's privacy and turmoil, of his dignity upended by the overpowering necessity of pure fantasy, pure thought, by the irreducible human element - Mind.

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings.

I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.

Are you prepared to take a dive into the deep end of my head?

But on the other hand, I think as an actor, you tend to want to look at the darker parts of your psyche.

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.

Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

The characters I write about are very internal.

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

I've always relied a lot on landscape in my books, the atmosphere of a particular place, as well as a fair amount of external action. While writing 'Chance,' it occurred to me that this is the most internal book I've ever written. So much of the action takes place in Chance's head.

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

I think I'm good at looking moody. I'm not much good at analysing myself, but I tend to fit the strange and tortured characters.

I feel like I'm in my own head a lot; it just feels amazing, but scary, weird and confusing.

I think I was kind of melancholy as a kid. I spent a lot of time inside my own head, a lot of time sort of staring into space wondering the hell was going on.