Sophie Kinsella Quotes

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

I like to write books that touch my heart. I want to entertain, and I love to entertain myself.

I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.

For myself, I feel more natural writing stories or novels than writing plays. I feel more like myself, like I can express myself better, and like I have a greater clarity about what I want to do.

Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.

I prefer writing originals.

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's also crucial to me that I take on challenges. If write only inside my comfort zone, I'll suffocate.

I like to write about things that don't reflect exactly on my life.

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch.

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.

A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.

I enjoy, in the summer, getting back to writing in my own voice.

If it has something of substance and a platform that makes sense, I can share my story. You can get a little more into my life, and I can mesh my singing with things I love to do and writing for others and telling my story in hopes of helping someone. I'm all for it.

You have to write your own story, your own graph and rhythm.

I feel, as an artist, it's important for me to write, and that's a big part of what my journey is - being able to write my stories and talk about stuff.

I read 'The Young Landlords' and felt almost a chemical change. What I realized while reading that book was that I could write in my voice, use my tongue, my language, my style, and write a story.

I love the privilege of looking back on my life every three years, turning it into a comedy show, and sharing it with an audience. It's incredibly cathartic.

I feel very strongly as a writer and as a director it is not my job to crush the audience's imagination.

My job is to engage, entertain, work out my life, tell a certain truth.