Richard Hell Quotes

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.

You learn a lot about yourself just by writing it down.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting

If you want to know what you look like, look into a mirror. If you want to know how you think, you should write

If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.

We read books to find out who we are.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

I learned from my past.

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it's all part of making sense of who I am.

Everything is an experience. You learn something different from everything you do.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

It was difficult for me because I was searching for the answer for so long, and the answer was right in front of me. Do what I do best.

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.