Kathryn Stockett
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I looked at a lot of Eudora Welty's photographs and read her stories.
I had to really immerse myself in the time.
And I think I got most of it right.
I really wanted the reader to feel it.
like the air of the time and feel, just feel like, know what it felt like to be a woman in 1930 in Mississippi.
All I can say is that my characters kind of tell me what they're going to do.
I go into writing a story knowing maybe about 10% about what's going to happen.
Well, Mark Twain uses it, and I thought it was just a great word of the time.
Calamity.
Calamity.
It's a calamity.
And, you know, the C-Club has a little special meaning to me as well.
And, you know, if you read the book, you'll stumble across that.
But I don't know where we get these ideas, all these voices in my head.
I don't know.
They just show up and they tell me what they're going to do.
And sometimes they say that they're going to do this.
And I say, no, you're not.
I don't want to write that.
And then what do they do?