Katori Hall Quotes

It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.

Storytelling is really at the root of everything that I do.

There are stories I wanted to tell, and they are not defined by what I look like.

I think a diversity of expression can only be good, so I think the more that people write about their experience, use their imagination to deal with their experience, you know, I think that's going to be good for not only for those authors but also for people who are interested in trying to understand it.

Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted.

Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams, fantasies, and ordinary thoughts. Let us to feel the texture of them and not be afraid of them.Writing is still the wildest thing I know.

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.

Whether we're talking about books, music or film, it's all about storytelling. You get a powerful new way of connecting with people once you hear their stories.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

Every kid has a story to tell!

I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.

I'm a writer who just happens to draw.

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

I believe that everyone has a story, and it is important that we encourage all students to tell theirs.

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

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.

The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.