Sophie Kinsella Quotes

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

I just write the way I feel, and if it feels good to me, hopefully everybody likes it.

I use myself for each part. Naturally, it's my body, it's my soul, it's my feelings. That's the only way I know how to work. I couldn't pretend.

And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.

I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the time... I like the fact that I have the right once in a while to say silly things.

I don't project no image. I just act like myself. I write about how I feel, the emotional stage I'm in at the time. So I write from the heart. I never write from my mind. My brain, I mean.

When I write a song with somebody else in mind, it's putting the cart before the horse. The way I write best is when I allow the song to tell me what it wants to be.

I just write what I think is funny, or interesting, and hopefully everything else will take care of itself. There's no strategy to anything.

You know what, I just write what I feel.

I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline.

For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.

I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.

You'll go mad trying to figure out what people want. I don't bother. I write the stories I want to read.

I prefer writing originals.

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It's just how my subconscious works.

I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.

I guess I could say that I pursue questions that interest me in ways that interest me on the page, but that's awfully vague.

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.

The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.

I write from my stomach.

I tend to play in a way that feels natural to me. To me that's authentic for myself. I play by where I'm led by some sense of where I feel I'm supposed to be.

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.