Kate Morton Quotes

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

And that is all anyone can do, try to be honest about what he feels, what he's seen or thinks he's seen.

I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself.

The thing I liked about writing about food when I started it was that I felt I was writing about food in a different way. Not like a food writer.

Yeah. Iʼve always felt this way. I mean weʼre born alone, we die alone. And while weʼre here we are absolutely, completely sealed in our own bodies. Really weird. Kinda freaks me out to think about it. We can only experience the outside world through our own slanted perception of it. Who knows what youʼre really like. I just see what I think youʼre like.

When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you that is lacking in foibles and weaknesses and egotism and vanities and so on. You're just trying to really say something as truthful as you can out of the best that you have in you.

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

No one can see your life the way you see it.

I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.

No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.

I think anything you listen to is going to be different.

I've got to show life as I see it.

You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.

Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.

I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in examining all the nuances and idiosyncrasies of particular stories of everyday people. And if that doesn't happen, then I usually transplant myself and my own stories to a particular historical event. Which is why you'll see me, the first person pronoun, interacting in a song about Carl Sandburg, or you'll find my [sic] interacting with Saul Bellow. It's sort of a re-rendering of history and making it my own.

When I open my mouth and sing, the truth comes out. When I write, the truth comes out. I can't lie. That, I think, is one of the strongest elements of my music. When people talk about my writing as though I'm doing it from an accountant's perspective, it really pisses me off.

What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope.

I never try to guess what anyone else will take from a movie. Every movie is such a different experience for each and every person. I don't like it when people try telling people what they should take from a movie. You should go see it with fresh eyes and see for themselves.

All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.

A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

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!

The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.

Every mind has another vision of reality. There is not a common reality. Every person thinks he is like the others, but every person is different, living in his own psychology.