Kathryn Stockett
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I don't know.
Who knows where, you know, the muse speaks to you, how the words come.
I don't know.
I wish I did.
Not difficult, but...
That line, I wanted the reader to see firsthand that sometimes you can't whip the hope out of somebody.
Genuine hope is powerful.
So many people that have been silenced, that don't have the chance to speak up.
I guess it's why I write.
To have a chance to say my piece.
Oh, probably from my own daughter.
Just hearing that childhood voice and saying things to me that, you know, you wonder, where did you come from?
Yeah.
I did.
I wrote almost every day, every day that I could.
Yeah.
I don't give up easily.
I got to say, I'm really stubborn.
So when I got fired, it kind of put a fire under my ass to prove them wrong or something.
It took me a minute to get out of the bottom of the drain.