Kris Emery > Kris's Quotes

“Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.”
― Linda Nelson

“Try as we might, we write what we write”
― bg Thurston

“The whole point about vision is that it's very individual, it's very personal, and it has to be confessional. It has to be something which hurts - the pulling out of it and putting it on the page hurts. Art can be about the individual writer's response to his or her condition, and if that response comes out of a predigested belief about what the audience wants to hear about the writer's condition, then it has no truth, it has no validity. You either write with your own blood or nobody's. Otherwise it's just ink.”
― Clive Barker

“Submitting to history allows us to remember our society’s past. Although writing and art express history, it's our humanity which keeps all of us striving for an improved future.”
― K.P. Kollenborn

“I write to be a part of something - a world made up of words and ideas, which are sometimes painfully criticized, gratefully loved and can never be destroyed.”
― Ashley Sanders

“ I also know that not everyone will like what I do, and that there are many people who do love my work, and so I write for them, and for my own pleasure, and try not to brood too much over those who have different tastes. And I have written enough books now that I know the self-doubt and the anxiety are part of the creative process, and drive me to keep trying to do better, and keep me from becoming too cocksure about my writing, which is a form of creative death.”
― Kate Forsyth

“I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other people write for other reasons: to see more closely what it is they are thinking about, what they may be afraid of. Sometimes writers write to solve a problem, to answer their own question. All these reasons are good reasons. And that is the most important thing I'll ever tell you. Maybe it is the most important thing you'll ever hear. Ever.”
― Patricia MacLachlan, Word After Word After Word

“I am broken the way most writers are, stories leaking through the cracks.”
― Victoria Schwab

“I want to make you laugh or cry when you read a story . . .or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school.”
― Stephen King

“The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.”
― Richard Peck

“I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“I can't write to please everyone, but someone, somewhere will be touched if I put my heart into it.”
― Sara Winters

“If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.”
― Pete Townshend

“Don’t write what you know—what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you—and interests you deeply—and your readers will catch fire at your words.”
― Valerie Sherwood

“You will have a story in there. . . or a character, a place, a poem, a moment in time. When you find it, you will write it. Word after word after word after word.”
― Patricia MacLachlan, Word After Word After Word

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
― William Wordsworth

“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy. ...this book...is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink.
Drink and be filled up.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
― Joseph Campbell

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast”
― Lewis Carroll