Alexandra Fuller Quotes

Everybody is determined by his own experience.

I recommend anybody go to a bookstore, go down the self-help or new-age section, and just walk those aisles. See what book jumps out at you; there's a good chance it's a book you need in your life. That's basically how I find the books that I read.

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

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.

'Warm Bodies' ended up becoming one of the most personal relatable things I've written.

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.

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

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

I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are.

Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did.

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

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

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

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

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

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

I write about what I'm going through.

My act is pretty much me reflecting on what I want to talk about and what I think is funny and what has happened to me.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

I think at this point I only write books about questions I really want to figure out. They're indulgences, essentially. I think, 'What would I like to spend five years really thinking about? What could I gain from thinking about for five years?'

All my characters are me, in one way or another.

I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love songs cuz I don't really have much boy experience. I just write about what I am actually going through in my real life.