Cristina Henriquez Quotes

I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.

I used to love writing in my journal.

Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!

I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

Some people say, 'Write what you know.' My thing is, 'Write what scares you.'

I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens is that you write when you're ready.

I try and journal every day, and that's where a lot of my lyric comes from.

I love making up titles.

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.

When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.

I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.

Music was never just a hobby for me. I'd pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing at the time. I would put my ideas in songs the way some people might put them in diaries or journals.

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel very American. I belong.

I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.

I didn't realize when I first started writing how much it would set me free from certain situations in my life. It's incredible.

When you fall in love, you don't have a whole lot of time. But when it comes to a heartache, all of the sudden you have time on your hands, and it's an outlet for you to write.

I don't end up writing songs in my journals, but I'm sure that my ability to write songs has been helped by how consistently and impulsively I try to get my life into words through the journals.

A lot of my songs are about things that concern me personally, not a heightened version of myself or any of the characters that I play.

I say it's easier to write for other people than write for myself.