Bob Dylan Quotes

I write about personal experiences.

I never sit down to write anything personal unless I know the subject is going to go beyond my own experience and address something larger and more universal.

In many ways, I've been writing personal stories all my life.

I believe that if a child has a feel for writing and wants to write, there is an audience. Children should just dive in and go at it. I would encourage children to write about themselves and things that are happening to them. It is a lot easier and they know the subject better if they use something out of their everyday lives as an inspiration. Read stories, listen to stories, to develop an understanding of what stories are all about.

You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions.

Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

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've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

I write about my life.

In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

There are autobiographical elements to the albums, and when I write, I always reference my own life as well as other things, so I'm just like any novelist or any fiction writer who tells stories.

Anyone can write your own life story.

What I write about in my novels is also what's in my life.

I would like to write my biography sometime. I love to write. I could write for weeks and weeks, maybe say nothing but just for the writing.

I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B' the summer after I turned 21.

We've always written from personal experiences.

The whole thing with the Rick James story sketch and the Prince story sketch - I recounted my past, you know? - and that's what I was doing. It's not like I sat down and said I want to come up with a great story about Rick James. That stuff really happened.

You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.

All my songs are things that have happened to me.

Someday, I'll write a book about what I've been through.

Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix.