Kem Nunn Quotes

Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.

I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me.

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

The best characters to play are the ones who have deep internal conflict.

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

Character is primary. What happens as far as plot and events is not as intriguing to me as what's happening inside this particular person.

I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.

At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.

I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.

I am always writing to myself.

Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas.

As a songwriter, I was always mining my own depths, which were filled with confusion and darkness.

A lot of my music is kind of contemplative, and somehow that always tends to tilt on the darker side. My inner conversation is apparently quite dark.

Me writing 'Black Rainbow' was me alone in a windowless room going insane.

I've really taken time to dive into my heart and my emotions a little more. I think, before, I was a little nervous to open up that box and go, 'What's in there,' you know? Now, that's what's made the best music, and that's what I've been able to pull out of parts of myself that I never knew existed.

Sometimes I have that kind of critical mind to myself as well. This is because there are times where I have to do things that I don't wish to.

The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time.

In the best writers, the outward-reaching interest in the 'found subject' leads back at a hairpin to some uncomfortable inner recognition that the writer has journeyed very far to see; he comes home half-dead.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

There's no question that you can explore aspects of yourself through roles that you play, and you get a chance to investigate yourself; that's healthy, and it's therapeutic in a way. But if you're indulging yourself, exploration at the cost of the story or the project, that's not good.

I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.