Steven Wilson Quotes

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.

All of my characters, I feel, have some essence of who I am in them.

I made the character as much of myself as I could.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

For the most part, there's so much of me in my characters.

Every song that I've done is me in one way or another.

I want to keep an element of myself in every character I play. And maybe that's connected to finding something that you like in every character. Maybe they coincide.

All my characters are me, in one way or another.

It's true that all my novels have been versions of myself to some degree.

I do not believe that with a fictional character you can force yourself too far away from yourself. There has to be some of you in it.

I can't single out one of my books or characters as a favorite. In the same way that I don't have a favorite kidney, my books are organically all part of myself. I might even say that put all together, the books are one ongoing, developing story - which, not coincidentally, happens to be my own lifestory.

All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the personages. In fact, I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person singular.

My life is at least as intricate as my readers' lives. People say that 'The Artist's Way' changed their lives, but when they talk about 'Floor Sample,' they tell me, 'I was with you all the way.'

I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

You're always putting yourself into your work. There's no separation; it's just how you use yourself and transform.