Kathryn Stockett
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It was the first...
introduction to the complexities of the relationships between Blacks and whites in the South.
I don't try to overanalyze it very much.
All I can say is that as a writer, I don't really have control over what I write.
I write with my heart.
The voices come out of me.
That's true.
That's true.
And I've wondered sometimes if...
Maybe the issue wasn't that I wrote the help.
It was that it became such a success.
Maybe that was the problem.
It's hard to think about telling an artist, no, no, that's not allowed.
You can't create that.
That's crossing the line.
But again, I get it.
And some say that the role of art should make you a little uncomfortable.
I see both sides.
I had to do a lot of research.
I had to do interviews.