Kathryn Stockett Quotes

I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough.

I write to save someone's life, probably my own

I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked.

Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace.

Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.

I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is in me. I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear; my courage is reborn. But, and that is the great question, will I ever be able to write anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer?

I think you often have that sense when you write--that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on paper, you're free of it. And you're not, of course; you've just managed to set it down on paper, that's all.

Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing.

nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.

I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart.

I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use art to express it.

I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.

Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.

All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

I do my best to write my way through it. It helps the laughing, reflective part come quicker.

Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face.

The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before.

A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.

The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?

When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

I just write when fear overtakes me.

At times I enjoy writing and at others times I just hate it because it's definitely having to go back and experience some pain and express what you really feel.

Writing becomes a really good creative outlet when you're sitting there and feeling creatively frustrated or stilted, but also you then get to write parts for yourself.