David Levithan Quotes

I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.

Make time in your life to listen to your own voice. Do not let it get drowned out by others. Your voice is yours and yours alone. Stay in touch with it and use it.

But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head.

Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts

I don't feel I have an alter ego.

I don't know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, it's very difficult to find.

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we're doing. We believe things about ourself.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

I must say that I always thought I had a voice, even when I was 4 years old.

I have to have some of my voice because I have my own experiences that I lived through.

I feel like I have a distinct voice.

My self encompasses a lot of different things.

You are also what you say to yourself all day long.

You know how they say, "Find your voice"? That's your voice, in your pajamas. And it doesn't mean that you're going to publish it or print it or people are going to see you in your pajamas. It just means you are going to construct the foundation in your pajamas, in that voice.

If you get mad about how your voice sounds when it comes out of your own mouth, it's not really my fault. Go ahead and be yourself.

It's easy to hear the voices of others and often very difficult to hear your own. Every person you meet is going to want something different from you. The question is: what do you want for yourself?

your soul is an inner something that is another you and hardly anybody knows what it's really thinkin' except you.

Some people don't even notice. "Oh, you sound exactly like you did!" And I say, "OK, if that's what you want to believe, that's fine."

I just don't like to be in my own - I'm already myself, so I don't like to be in my own - like, watch myself.

For some people, it's the beginning of an awakening when they hear or read, "You have a voice in your head that never stops talking. Have you noticed that?" And suddenly they become aware that the thoughts go through their heads, whereas before they were so identified with them that they were those thoughts.

In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

When I hear myself, I don't know how I sound.

It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.

I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big urge within me.