Kenko Yoshida Quotes

I will waste an extraordinary amount of time, you know. And if it's not watching television, I'll be sitting staring out of the window. And yes, I know there's the idea of the artist, sitting there doing nothing while things are going on, but actually, no. It's vacant space. I'm thinking about the laundry.

If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to write poetry.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

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

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.

I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.

I just enjoyed telling stories. I enjoyed watching films and reading and becoming someone else. I spent a lot of time on my own when I was younger; I enjoyed my own company and still do, so it was a source of escapism.

I didn't like school. I was pretty much daydreaming all the time. I would be in the back of the class writing down random stories and stuff that would have nothing to do with school. I only lasted two years in high school before I moved out to L.A.

I'm not a risk-taker; that's probably why I write - because when you're easily bored, but you don't like taking risks, you end up doing it all in your head.

I happen to think nearly everybody - especially those one might find in the odd issue of 'People' magazine, including me - is frightfully boring, Especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden.

Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer and weep.

I think I write serious comedies. I would love to be able to write for pure pleasure, but the undertow is always loneliness.

Writing dark poetry was always my escape.

If I claim I'm the opposite of my characters, then it'll just sound awful. But I tend to write the sort of things I'd never say because I'm not a very forceful person.

The most real dialogue for me is when I am alone, writing.

I'm boring as hell. I just sit around and talk philosophy.

I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.