Megan Nicole Quotes

You can only write your own vision.

I like to tell my own story using my personality and my insight, the way I see things.

Everybody - every single person - has a story. Find yours and tell it in your voice.

When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

I say to my pupils, 'You can pitch me any thing you've got, but tell me why you're the only person who can write it in the world. Keep digging.'

A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.

I think it's really important to make things your own in your voice. I started when I was 23, and in the beginning of my career, there was this expectation of a young designer being edgier, cooler, more downtown. But I was never that person.

The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal.

Write what you would love to read. Finish what you begin to write. Your voice is uniquely yours and we are all waiting to hear it.

I wasn't intentionally trying to create my own path or be original, it was just I needed to say certain things and I needed to express myself, and that's how it came out.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

We all tell our own stories the way we live our lives. My story is: Life is too short to not believe in fresh voices. I don't have Hollywood stars. I have great American artists.

You have to write the story that's at the front of your head. There is no point in trying to write for the market; it won't ring true.

I love to write. I used to be a math teacher. And I like the idea that other people could write about the same subjects, but no one would write it just the way I do. It's very individual: a child could write the same story as somebody else, but it wouldn't come out the same.

It's great to get to make something in your own voice.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.

Don't imitate. Write what you know about, that has to be your goal.

Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

I think I'm a good writer. I think I have my own voice, which is unique to everyone - everyone has their own voice; if they would just write from a vulnerable embarrassing place, it's going to be universal, and it's going to be entertaining. Because everyone is the same, and everyone is unique.