Blogging is different from both journal-writing and writing for print. It's more fun than either of those. The freedom to write whatever… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
Another benefit is that the more I blog, the more I maintain and develop a first-person voice, which translates into a much… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
I've always subscribed to the notion that a writer always has something else to say, and the more you write, the more… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
I wanted to capture time through how food and I were getting along at any given moment. That necessitated writing some dark… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think of blogging as finger exercises for a violinist; sometimes I think of it as mulching a garden. It is… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
Writing blog posts is totally freeing in a whole new way for me. I'm not writing it for any editor, and I'm… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
I had to detach myself from myself, if that makes any sense, to conjure an authentic first-person voice. In that sense, it… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
I was also writing in a tradition and trying to do something different with it, something that hadn't necessarily been done before,… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
When you're sixteen and struggling to forge an identity out of a morass of hormones and daydreams, remarks like that cut a deep groove… — Kate Christensen Copy Share
Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult. — Kate Christensen Copy Share
As an adult I generally feel this pressure to be thin, not from men, but from other women. As a silent or not-so-silent competition,… — Kate Christensen Copy Share
Writing blog posts is totally freeing in a whole new way for me. I'm not writing it for any editor, and I'm not being… — Kate Christensen Copy Share
The pressure to be thin, which causes guilt and obsessiveness around food, is terrible and starts so early. For me, it started at sixteen… — Kate Christensen Copy Share
Blogging is different from both journal-writing and writing for print. It's more fun than either of those. The freedom to write whatever I want… — Kate Christensen Copy Share
My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if… — Kate Christensen Copy Share
I was also writing in a tradition and trying to do something different with it, something that hadn't necessarily been done before, which was… — Kate Christensen Copy Share
Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep way, I… — Kate Christensen Copy Share
To taste fully is to live fully. And to live fully is to be awake and responsive to complexities and truths--good and terrible, overwhelming… — Kate Christensen Copy Share
I had to detach myself from myself, if that makes any sense, to conjure an authentic first-person voice. In that sense, it was similar… — Kate Christensen Copy Share
I wanted to capture time through how food and I were getting along at any given moment. That necessitated writing some dark stuff, some… — Kate Christensen Copy Share
