Chantal Kreviazuk Quotes

People only say I'm angry because I'm black and I'm a woman. But all sorts of people write with strong feeling, the way I do.

A sports writer is a stylist of some kind. He is trying to convey mood and character and emotion.

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy.

If you're writing about what you're feeling about something, then you're in good stead.

I personally think that it is acceptable if I take a step forward and can act with more diverse expressions and feelings.

I think, in reading a few sentences of text, you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers but in lyricists as well.

I like to write lyrics when I feel it, and because of that, I like to keep a log of lyrics all the time.

I always tell people, 'Take a class or volunteer.' It really helps you get out of your own little pocket of people you always see and gets you exposed to a new group of people.

I started writing for myself because I know how to write for myself. I know how to show what I can do.

The books that I wrote in my late teens and 20s, the little love stories, they were right from the heart.

I think women write more fully and honestly than men about heart and home.

I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

I get lots of requests from people to write sad songs, and I'm like, 'No, that's rubbish patter.'

I have always played the cheerful girl next door, especially on the Internet, and this film is a break from that. My character is more moody and bratty in 'Karwaan.'

I think all literature should be read as comparative literature. And I think we should write out of what we know, but in the expectation that we can be changed at any moment by something we have yet to discover.

Ever since I was a kid, I've always been interested in the poetry of melancholy, if you like.

I'm writing; I'm teaching myself writing.

Doing 'SunTrap' after 'The Chase' is dipping into something different. That's the whole basis of what I wanted to do with my career. I didn't want to do the same thing all the time.

When I first started writing, I wrote really sad, emotional songs which were all slow.

Music can make you go from sadness to an immense sadness. There is a limit; if you go too far, it becomes schmaltzy.

If you're creating your character, you can have full ownership of the emotional range they go through. You can make bolder choices.

Not everyone wants to be in misery in every song!

I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer.

Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul,--this makes life worth living.