Personal Experience Quotes

"I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was years old. And if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it." "My real life is boring, but there's always a curiosity about what it looks like from the outside" "When you read a novel, your own imagery is formed" "I never paint dreams or nightmares I paint my own reality" "I'm scared every day of my life" "I don't know if it's normal or not, but sexuality has always been a big part of my life" "Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not." "Two people can look at the same thing and see it differently." "Any relationship I've ever been in, any heartbreak, has been used by one incredible writer to write a new thing about terrorizing me and who I am" "My favorite songs are the ones that are the most personal." "I grew up in a segregated America; I know what it feels like to be held down." "We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom." "The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time." "I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them." "Everyone can master a grief but he that has it." "Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality." "There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home" "The totality of my discourse, a discourse which is in the end truly my own, concerns my own illness" "The best way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself" "Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts"