Quotes About Reflective Writing

#1. Reflective writing produces distinct rewards. A writer does not claim to live exclusively in the moment. A pensive writer retreats into oneself in noble attempt to meld memory, thought, faith, doubt, and other strong emotions into thought capsules while exploring the inscrutable web of creation.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#2. Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.

Damon Albarn

#3. A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.

Garrison Keillor

#4. Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Joyce Meyer

#5. You are blowing my mind again

Sapphire Belucci

#6. The music I play and write is all reflective of myself and the experiences in my life. I feel like my whole journey is just collecting stories and songs along the way.

Elle King

#7. Do you find your identity in who you are or whose you are?

Mark Batterson

#8. In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.

Daniel Kahneman

#9. What I wanted was to write a memoir that was immersive rather than reflective, to resurrect a long-gone version of my own consciousness. I kept expecting that sooner or later the effort would come to seem like second nature to me, but it never did.

Kevin Brockmeier

#10. I don't know all you've done, but God knows. And even in the knowing, He chose to love you.

Michelle Griep

#11. Wintertime for me is a time when I do a lot of my writing in the studio. It's a time I enjoy. And it's very reflective and a very calming time of the year. Throughout the year I gather a lot of musical inspirations, and this is where I bring them to the studio and see what will evolve musically.

Enya

#12. You may debate whether the Disney heroines fit the feminist standard, but they don't live in a democracy. Remember, they're princesses.

Richard Corliss

#13. I do my best to write my way through it. It helps the laughing, reflective part come quicker.

Madi Diaz

#14. Given the current state of publishing, I think it helps to have a brand name on the cover of your book. Comedians are proven commodities with built-in audiences. They may not have the writing chops of a Dave Eggers, but they're salacious and funny and self-reflective.

Michael Showalter

#15. Keep trusting God, He will give you what you need

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. I'm interested in thinking about how are we contributing to the culture, what we can write that might help us deepen the culture, make us more reflective, make us more empathetic, make us feel our connectedness in other ways.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#17. We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try.

Elizabeth Gilbert