Zoe Cassavetes Quotes

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

I can only write a book like 'The Tin Drum' or 'From the Diary of a Snail' at a special period of my life. The books came about because of how I felt and thought at the time.

I don't want real life necessarily to be seen only as a context to heighten the deepness my work.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

A lot of times, I have personal things, things I go through that I may exaggerate or make a story around, but it always has a meaning related to something I've been through for real.

Most things I go through I have to write about.

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

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.

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.

My music is about my life. If it's something that I've lived, then it's something that I've written about.

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

In a sense, any story that anyone writes is going to be autobiographical - whether it deals directly with the author's experience or not - because it captures what we're obsessed with while working on that particular piece.

Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.

My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.

Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am.

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.