Writer Quotes by Kevin Keck

Energy seems to be the more critical of those two variables, because if I'm really feeling the push/pull to write, then I'll make the…

— Kevin Keck

What I need to write is a complicated equation. Maybe if I knew I'd be one of those writers, one of the steady ones.…

— Kevin Keck

Of course, I don't mean to imply that all writers are working in the deep waters that border on the divine. Most writers are…

— Kevin Keck

If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the story, and…

— Kevin Keck

In some sense that was a blessing, because it forced me to focus on prose. I feel my narrative voice in prose is more…

— Kevin Keck

As I've picked up more responsibilities in life, I've found nearly every one of those extra burdens drains me in a way that makes…

— Kevin Keck

That being said, if you slept with me and are filled with shame at the possibility of the world knowing, then you should have…

— Kevin Keck

As a writer, I was deliberately creating an alternate world, and then populating it with experiences and people that I knew in this world,…

— Kevin Keck

I've always been a fan of comedy, and I understood from a young age that what makes most comedy work is the immediacy of…

— Kevin Keck

I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down…

— Kevin Keck

It all depends on what I'm working on and if there is a deadline involved. Anything that's headed toward a magazine or newspaper is…

— Kevin Keck

In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact until after…

— Kevin Keck

Engaging with creativity in a serious way is a shamanistic activity, and by extension when you choose to follow a mystical path you cannot…

— Kevin Keck

At the time I was first writing the stories/essays that appear in Oedipus Wrecked, I was still under the impression that people would be…

— Kevin Keck

Curiously, the balance seems to come when writing is woven into every aspect of my life, like eating or exercising - one flows constantly…

— Kevin Keck