Kelly Sue DeConnick Quotes

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.

My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.

I write my songs because I've lived them.

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

I'm not a writer on a mission, and I'm very suspicious of writers on missions, but I'm also not living a false life.

My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.

People choose whatever projects they've seen that I've done over the years, and whichever one is their favorite is the only one they care about. But I realized that none of those were my voice or representative of what my thoughts and feelings were.

I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever - I rap about it.

Writing is about bringing something from inside you that you're trying to say, and not just trying to say something to please someone else.

I think writing gives me creative freedom.

There was a period when I just wanted to make what I wanted to make and I didn't care what lie I had to tell.

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all .... as long as you tell the truth.

Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

I think that's great - I just try not to be one of those people. I find the more I think about it, the less free I feel when I write and when I work.

I write about what I want to write about, and so the film comes out as a very personal expression even if its subject matter is totally prefabricated.

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.