Anatole France Quotes

When I write for myself, I think about myself and draw from my own experience.

A lot of my songs are about things that concern me personally, not a heightened version of myself or any of the characters that I play.

I've never been a confessional writer.

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.

I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

Anything I write is going to be autobiographical and true to some degree.

As autobiographical as say the stuff on 'Rumours' was, I don't think we thought of it as such when we were writing it.

I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so.

When you write, you don't really think of how honest you are being - it's only when you record that you understand how much of yourself you're giving.

I tend to write from a personal place, and most of the time when I'm writing by myself, it's coming from something I've experienced.

Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

'M Train' is as close to knowing what I'm like as anything. I don't know exactly what the book is about. All and nothing, I suppose.

As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.