Terry Tempest Williams Quotes

I think it's really important to make things your own in your voice. I started when I was 23, and in the beginning of my career, there was this expectation of a young designer being edgier, cooler, more downtown. But I was never that person.

I love to write. I used to be a math teacher. And I like the idea that other people could write about the same subjects, but no one would write it just the way I do. It's very individual: a child could write the same story as somebody else, but it wouldn't come out the same.

Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.

Finding one's voice - or creating a narrative voice that has the power to carry your story - is the hardest part.

I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.

My style is personal, my style of writing is personal, and I believe in that. I believe what comes out of me is an individual thing, and that's why I, I believe in the individual.

Every story you tell is your own story.

If I was singing like somebody else, then it was almost like I was expressing myself like somebody else. So it was always a very original thing for me. It's my voice, it's my diary, it's the way I connect with people.

We all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform.

It's the way you play that makes it . . . Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you're going to get it. And whatever you get, that's you, so that's your story.

My work is literally my voice.

Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.

The whole point in developing your own style is to find your own voice.

If I have a style, I am not aware of it.

To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.

I write the way I write.

Personal style isn't simply an exercise in parroting but rather an exhibition for our own stories - from the gait of our walk to the rhythm of our speech to the manner in which the necktie falls from the knot.

I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style.

Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.

I always kind of think I don't have a style, just whatever seems to be appropriate for the story.

I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the 'honesty' of the story.

For me, everything about the telling is guided by tone. It's a bit mysterious; it's either there, or it isn't.

Covers are always so fun to do, but there's nothing like telling your own story.

I think I just have a different style.