Katie Kitamura Quotes

For everyone I know who is a writer, there was some awkward time in their lives when they had to learn to call themselves one.

I really had to develop a core. I had to figure out, at my core as a writer, what did I value? What was I about? And I had to love it and take pleasure in it.

I've never thought of myself as a writer. I still don't, despite all the writing I've done.

Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.

I have done some tacky films, but then they were all my decisions, and I'm happy to have made those because they have made me who I am.

Writing has certainly helped me explore about 20,000 versions of my authentic self. I suppose that's what most writers discover if they write long enough: there are a lot of selves roaming around in there.

I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind,' but eventually, I found my way and realized that wasn't me.

It took me a long time to find my own voice, even after I started making my own music.

Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I never had a good answer for them. It took me a long time to realize they were right.

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

My style is constantly evolving. Style has been something that I think has been the hardest thing for me to come to terms with.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it's intimidating as hell.

I've known who I am as an artist for a long time; 'Idol' has shown me what I'm capable of. I know it's all possible for me now. I can go in any direction I want. I'm forever grateful to them.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

I don't really know who I am as an actor: the best thing would be to experiment with it for the next 30 years and never really find out.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.

You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.

I'm a late bloomer. It's taken me a long time to find my voice, and I think all the records I've made over the years, I was finding my voice, and that's part of the process.

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

I gave up writing for seven years (very biblical) and picked it up again, still clueless and still seeking the exotic, when I was twenty-one.