Mort Walker Quotes

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.

I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.

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

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.

I think it's easier for me to write from experience.

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.

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

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.

You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know.

Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.

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

Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It's all me.

Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about.

I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

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.

It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and write about it. It's that quick.

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

I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.

First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life.

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

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

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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

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