Sonali Bendre Quotes

If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose.

A lot of what I write is very personal.

I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

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.

The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.

I often write things, and then I think it's too personal for the Moodies. It's not something that I could share with other guys to say.

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

Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York, I have tried to write in shorts or with no shirt on and found myself unable to do so, the reason being, I take it, that writing, even of the most impersonal sort, is for me a divestment, a striptease, even, so that if I start off undressed, I have nowhere to go.

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

I essentially write for myself.

For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like something that came from a really crap place. You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.

I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life.

I am always writing to myself.

I'm a firm believer in putting your experiences in your writing, of bleeding into the page.

You have to write about what's inside you. If I have to get something out, I'll do it.

I've talked with friends about this: when you write about yourself, that's what people connect to. When you write a sermon or a lesson, that may not reach people. I've learned a lot from people who have been writing about themselves.

There's so much stuff that you see every day that you want to talk about, but I'm not the type to open up, so the only way I could open up is through music.

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 find it hard to express myself when writing from the f - - - heart or the a - , or wherever. It's just like anything, it's (easier) when you get used to it, but I've not done it. I was just a singer in a band.

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

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.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

The first audience that you have when writing a book is you.