Tropes Quotes by Kit Reed

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

— Kit Reed

I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways.

— Kit Reed

Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about.

— Kit Reed

“My novel is about the history of the world, told from the point of view of a column of stone.”

— Kit Reed

“Did you ever get exactly what you want and find out it's not what you wanted at all?”

— Kit Reed

I dream in color; it's always a movie and sometimes I'm in it, as myself.

— Kit Reed

I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation…

— Kit Reed

I've lived on a military base and in a convent boarding school with dobermans at the bottom of front stairs to keep us in…

— Kit Reed

Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.

— Kit Reed