Brent Runyon quotes

“The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you.”
-- Brent Runyon

Source : Brent Runyon (2005). “The Burn Journals”, p.265, Vintage

#People Quotes #Problem Quotes #Introvert Quotes

“Before everything, I used to do this thing when I was upset-I used to take all my feelings and push them down inside me. It was like they were garbage and I was compacting it to get more in. I felt like I could keep pushing all my feelings down into my socks and I wouldn't have to worry about them. I don't think I do that anymore.”
-- Brent Runyon

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“So what does that make you think about God? I think that maybe, if human beings have souls, that maybe their souls are in their eyes. That maybe that's what the color is. Their souls.”
-- Brent Runyon

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“I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read.”
-- Brent Runyon

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I write in a rush of memory.”
-- Brent Runyon

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“Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.”
-- Brent Runyon

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“I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress.”
-- Brent Runyon

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“Maybe I would have become an actor. I was a very outgoing kid, but being in the hospital - being outside of social action for so long - turned me into an observer. Actually, right after I got out of the hospital, I did start writing a novel, but the book was so transparently about me that I stopped.”
-- Brent Runyon

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Kids Quotes

“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”

“There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.”

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“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”

“We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.”

“The problem with a politician’s quote on Facebook is you don’t know whether or not they really said it.”

“I think a lot, but I don't say much.”

“When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.”

“Extraverts ... cannot understand life until they have lived it. Introverts ... cannot live life until they understand it.”

“Many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors.”