Kate Klise Quotes

When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.

The first audience that you have when writing a book is you.

I think no one but me has the right to write about my life as I want to write it in a particular way. I don't think any other person will be able to tell the story of my life like how I have approached it. It works best when it's written by someone who has experienced it herself.

One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice.

If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.

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

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if I'm telling it to one person only, my best friend.

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

Write the story you need to tell and want to read. It's impossible to know what others want, so don't waste time trying to guess.

We've always written from personal experiences.

There's always an element of truth to what I write because that's why I write.

I write about personal experiences.

I really do pride myself on being able to help other people tell their stories and bring out the best in them. But I still, every song I'm writing, I still need to relate to it. I still need to find my true self in it, or else it'll feel dishonest. I mean, everything has a queer meaning as far as I'm concerned.

I like to tell my own story using my personality and my insight, the way I see things.

I want young readers to know that to tell their own story is the most important thing they'll ever do.

I realized that even though I had this urge, this longing, to write about other people, in order for it to be emotionally gripping, I needed to be in there somehow.

I always say that I take my life and turn it into story, and I certainly did that with 'Countdown'.

Filming 'The Drew,' thinking a lot about story arcs and all that stuff, I thought about how my career ended. I decided I wanted to try to rewrite that.

I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.

I think I'm attracted to writers who tell us something about ourselves.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.