Jill McCorkle Quotes

The unconscious is much smarter than the conscious.

We understand more than we know.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.

I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your hands on very easily. Things that are kind of nebulous and they feel like they're not completely formed. You have to feel your way through that.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.

I don't do my best work while I'm in therapy. I'm too onto myself immediately seeing meanings in things and more likely to censor myself. I'd rather find images I don't understand. That's what generates the work.

I think we plan everything, somehow, on another level.

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

I'm constantly surprised by... an orange will roll off a table, and I'll catch it before I knew it was falling. Something happens there. We could write it off and say, 'Subconsciously I knew that was happening,' but there's so many things every day - I'm amazed by how little we know.

I love dreaming!

I'm very happy for others to engage in conjecture, but if I was ever conscious of what I'm thinking about when I'm writing, oh my God, I'd be totally lost.

Magic symbolises the subconscious - that part of us that is creative and powerful that we sometimes don't tap into.

You have to be open to dreaming. It's a complicated language, but I'm obsessed with it.

Sometimes I see patterns in my mind. I dream about them at night. They drive me crazy.

I don't think there is any kind of magic about what I do. All of the connections are there, somewhere in the subconscious or in the collective unconscious. If I let the elements speak to each other, then these coincidences will happen. And they do happen. They happen all the time.

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine.

Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends.