Brent Runyon Quotes

• The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you.

  Brent Runyon

  People, Problem, Introvert

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

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• 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

  Thinking, Worry, Upset

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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, Writing, Kids

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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

  Eye, Thinking, Color

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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

  Mother, Father, Progress

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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, Thinking, Trying

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• Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.

  Brent Runyon

  Book, Writing, Work Out

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• I write in a rush of memory.

  Brent Runyon

  Memories, Writing

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