Cathy Marie Buchanan Quotes

I'm starting to find my own style.

I feel like it's important, especially at young age, to find exactly what it is that makes your style so important as opposed to just trying to fit into the iconic styles of performers out there.

If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar style - I'm just trying to be an original artist.

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.

I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.

Writing gave me a life.

Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.

I wrote poetry and short stories. I would send them to magazines; they wouldn't get in. But short stories are how I found philosophy and how I'd understand the world.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know.

Style applies to a lifestyle. It's not about being told this is trendy, you must do it. Now people have more access than ever before.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

Go out there and try on everything - short skirts, long skirts, mid length, little jackets, men's clothing - and really look at yourself; really walk around in the clothes. Don't just take someone else's advice. You must feel you in these clothes and feel what it's like to live in them.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that.

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.