Amanda Seales Quotes

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.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

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.

I don't like mimicking people. I don't like repeating talking points. I don't like arguing with people just to argue. I like actually coming up with an interesting thing to say that I don't think has been said before in that way.

I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a musician, you pride yourself on having your own distinct sound.

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

Creativity runs on automatic, no matter what's happening in other parts of my life. I can't help myself. It's been in me, and it evolves in me over the years. It's a condition in me.

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.

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've always made music - pretty much since I was born.

All artists are now free to express their own personality.

My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.

I write the way I write.

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow.

I enjoy, in the summer, getting back to writing in my own voice.

The treasure of a writer is to maintain their own style.

When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.

I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.

People who are deep thinkers, who have sort of a weird way of looking at the universe, are wildly attractive to me.

I think I just have a different style.

I think you can't help but write in your own voice.