Reflective Insight Quotes

It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.

In quoting others, we cite ourselves.

And then, looking back at my first Olympics, and when the pressure was on, in '94 and '98, and looking back and going, wow. I sensed and felt what Brian had gone through.

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective to say the very least, changes only with the journey; only when the road has, all abruptly and treacherously, and with an absoluteness that permits no argument, turned or dropped or risen is one able to see all that one could not have seen from any other place.

Everything I've written up to now, hasn't had anything to do with my life really.

There's so much I love about home, but then there's a lot that I can acknowledge that I dislike about home. And acknowledging that to myself helps me see that place more clearly and to bring readers to that place.

What I realized is that my interest in literature has more deeply structured my practice than I thought.

I think 'Believer' and 'Leland' were such great things to have been a part of, and I learned a lot.

I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.

I'm sure that like anybody else, I'm probably the sum total of my life experiences. If I'm smart and I've gained any wisdom, I have learned something from each of those experiences including different jobs I've taken throughout my life. The problem is, sometimes you don't realize you've learned something until maybe years later.