Karen Kingsbury Quotes

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

In my new book, 'Binge,' I share essays about everything I've never told my viewers - touching on the best and worst days of my life, some hilarious, some embarrassing, but all extremely personal.

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

My life is at least as intricate as my readers' lives. People say that 'The Artist's Way' changed their lives, but when they talk about 'Floor Sample,' they tell me, 'I was with you all the way.'

'Restaurant Man' is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

'Warm Bodies' ended up becoming one of the most personal relatable things I've written.

The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.

Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.

I get inspiration from my everyday life.

'Shadowboxer' was based on my life.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

What makes writing a memoir difficult is harder to quantify. Is it learning to know when you're ready to talk about something? Is it seeing the structure in a lumpen mass of fact? Is it finding out what you were really like as other people saw you? Yes to each.

I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others.

The way I look at life, whatever I'm doing at that time in my life is going to be reflected in my songs, for the most part.

When I go to the movies, I want to see a human being dealing with their lives. That's all I ask.

I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love songs cuz I don't really have much boy experience. I just write about what I am actually going through in my real life.

The only real inspiration or muse that I have is just the life that I live.