Sarah Kay Quotes

Why write stories? To join the conversation.

Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.

Writers are so important.

I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story.

Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.

To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.

Writing is a communication.

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part of digesting an experience and sharing it with others.

It's important to tell stories, and it's a worthwhile thing to do.

Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have to listen to what are they saying and what they're communicating to you. And so, a lot of it is just getting stuff down.

The only difficult thing is learning to recognise the interesting bits from those millions of moments life provides you with every day and writing down those snippets.

I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.

I kept notebooks as a kid, and they were important to me.

I'm a big reader. And I take a lot of pictures, do a lot of writing.

You have to have some kind of clarity or understanding of what's happening to write.

It's important to tell your story. It's important to listen.

When you have an important story to tell, the words you need seem to come of their own accord.

I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to do with it.

Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself.

I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important.

I never thought I could write this much and now that it's coming to an end, I feel sad that I have to stop, sort of the way you feel at the end of a really good book and you know you're going to miss the main character. But in this case, the main character is me! Myself. Joe (formerly JoDan) Bunch. —Joe Bunch

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.

If I ever teach writing again, I’d say the first lesson is to listen.

One of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering.