Writing Quotes (Page 350)

Katie Kitamura Author

Writing

"I write some art criticism, and one thing that's clear to me is that politics is fashionable in the American art world in a way it maybe isn't in American fiction. Your work of art becomes fashionable the moment it has some kind of political commentary. I think this has its dangers - the equation between fashion, politics, and art is problematic for obvious reasons. Nonetheless, the notion of politics as being de rigueur in the world of fiction is almost unthinkable. In fiction in America at the moment, the escape into whimsy is far more prevalent than the political."

Writing Art Fashion

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Katie Kitamura Author

Writing

"I'm interested in dismantling the distinction between masculine and feminine writing both because I think it's a false distinction and, I think, ultimately an insulting one. It's as insulting to men as it is to women. I'm not sure what masculine writing would look like - I assume some combination of Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Carver. Writing can't be gendered in that way."

Thinking Men Writing

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Katie Kitamura Author

Writing

"The desire to be liked is acceptable in real life but very problematic in fiction. Pleasantness is the enemy of good fiction. I try to write on the premise that no one is going to read my work. Because there's this terrible impulse to grovel before the reader, to make them like you, to write with the reader in mind in that way. It prevents you doing work that is ugly or upsetting or difficult. The temptation is to not be true to what you want to write and to be considerate or amusing instead. I'm always trying to fight against the impulse to make my readers like me."

Writing Real Fighting

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Katie Kitamura Author

Writing

"Fiction always reveals a lot about the person who is writing it. That's the scary thing. Not in a straightforward autobiographical sense. But the flaws in a piece of fiction are, unhappily, so often also the flaws of the writer."

Writing Scary Flaws

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Katie Kitamura Author

Writing

"It's a hard thing to examine and difficult to speak for other writers, but when I look at my own writing there is often too much reticence. And that's a flaw I have as a person as well. I'm too reticent. I'm non-confrontational to a fault. And I'm risk-averse, which probably shows in my sentences. The aversion to long lines, the tendency to strip things back and be spare. My writing is an act of erasure that's tied up with my personality. I can easily produce a ninety thousand word chunk of writing and then cut back and back until I've only got ten thousand words. Or nothing."

Writing Long Cutting

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Katie Kitamura Author

Writing

"There's a perception that good writing is writing which runs smoothly. But smooth-running prose can work against what you're trying to express in a novel."

Writing Running Perception

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Katie Kitamura Author

Writing

"I believe writers should be able to write about anything - anything - but there is also a sense in which your lived experience shapes what you write and what you don't write."

Believe Writing I Believe

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Katie Price Model, Television personality

Writing

"You do get some weirdos, but if there are any nice people out there who want to write to me pleasantly, then they'll get a pleasant reply back!"

People Writing Nice

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Katie Stelmanis Singer-songwriter

Writing

"I wanted to try to make songs that worked as songs, not just as productions. People wanted me to do a solo acoustic session, they were like "Can you play song on the piano?" and I was like "Not really. It doesn't really work." I wanted to write songs that would work in a variation of instrumentation."

People Writing Song

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Katie Stelmanis Singer-songwriter

Writing

"As a songwriter, I was really into pulling away from the melodrama and the overdramatic type of writing that I was previously always doing. I think over time my songs have become more and more restrained."

Thinking Writing Song

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Katie Stelmanis Singer-songwriter

Writing

"In political sense, it doesn't really matter what I do on my own, but it's so important to rally some sort of collectiveness and reignite a collective vision, and I think that's something you can do effectively through art and music, and through writing and entertainment - and just through like, pop culture. It's about spreading ideas and making people think differently, essentially."

Thinking Writing Art

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Katie Wech Screenwriter

Writing

"I was always writing stories, even as a kid. I always wanted to be in the plays and do that sort of thing. Screenwriting started to really appeal to me because the idea of being able to make things that many people got to see became very captivating."

Writing Play Kids

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Katie White Musician

Writing

"I think the best thing for us is to just write songs that we like."

Thinking Writing Song

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Katie White Musician

Writing

"We kind of write pop songs, but we don't fit in the pop world. We're really bad at being pop stars and walking down red carpets. We've got our own little bubble, which we really like. We've learned to really like that."

Writing World Song

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Keanu Reeves Actor, Producer

Writing

"I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free beer."

Writing Song Beer

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Jake Holmes Singer-Songwriter

Writing

"At a certain point, I got used to writing on demand. I developed a habit of writing like I hired myself! I also like to write about things that affect me emotionally."

Writing Demand Habit

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Jakob Dylan Musician

Writing

"I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs was king."

Writing Song Kings

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Jakob Dylan Musician

Writing

"My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity."

Writing Song Perseverance

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Jakob Dylan Musician

Writing

"The songs I write should only be gauged by what other writers or peers are doing today. If the barometer for all songwriters was to match his body of work, then anyone you might mention alive or dead is a failure. But I've learned to not be too hung up on what's fair or not fair."

Writing Song Today

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Jakob Dylan Musician

Writing

"There are certainly a lot of people - and I won't name names - who are getting by simply on expression. And I guess that's valuable in some sense. But songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out."

People Writing Song

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