Karen Walton Quotes

I'd never imagined myself writing at all until I was almost 30. And horror films weren't to my taste, at least the super popular (slasher-y) ones of the day back then. The first novel I ever loved as a kid was Frankenstein, and I was always a crazy Hitchcock and Polanski fan... but I never saw myself - a square spazzy girl from the suburbs - writing anything that would horrify anyone. Or so I thought.

Karen Walton

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I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.

Carl Honore
- World
- Writing
- Journalism
Well, mostly I just want to be an actor. I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy or fancy like that.

Rainn Wilson
- Love
- Want
- Crazy
There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

Beck
- Different
- Writing
- Song
When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.

E. L. Doctorow
- Writing
- Book
- Doing
You have to feel good in what you're wearing; if you don't feel good it's not going to look good. You ever see someone wear something that's crazy and say, 'That's so crazy!' But they look good in it, because they feel good in it - you can just tell.

Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
- Good
- Crazy
- Feel Good
It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.

Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
- Time
- Good
- Long