Books Quote by Ewan McGregor

The less conscious one is of being a writer, the better the writing.

— Pico Iyer

“On being conscious of being a writer: As soon as one is aware of being “somebody,” to be watched and listened to with extra…

— John Updike

Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?

— Anne Lamott

Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good…

— Dorothea Brande

“To participate requires self-discipline and trust and courage, because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, as…

— Anne Lamott

It's like a relay race of being ignored. It is really challenging, but whenever I get asked that stuff, I feel really self-conscious about…

— Gavin Rossdale

For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued…

— Otto Rank

There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many…

— Peter Weir

What’s the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don’t notice you in your vulnerable state? The point of it all…

— Esther Earl

I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.

— Ellen Goodman

Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And thats the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump…

— Alec Baldwin

Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being…

— Denis Dutton