Kesha Quotes

I wanted to write stories I wanted to read, that I and my friends related to.

Everybody's got stories. I don't want to not have stories.

I always write from a personal place - whether it be about my friends or myself or a story that I heard.

I like to write about what I've seen and experiences I've been through.

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.

There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.

In today's time, writing stuff that actually happened is touch-and-go, because you don't want to be too personal. If you are, then it probably won't relate to a mass audience. A lot of times you have to make it sound like it's about everybody else, but you really went through it.

The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal as someone like Marc Maron or a lot of comedians, but they are essentially my life and my interpretation of it.

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.

So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

One of the things that put me off writing for a while was that piece of advice everybody gives new writers: 'Write what you know.' Nobody would ever want to read about my boring life! But I do know a lot of things about different societies' cultures and mythologies. The way people were and are.

I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when you write a script, so much of it is about what you pull from life, and this sounds sort of cheesy, but I felt like I didn't have enough life experience at that point to write a movie.

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.

Every writer is going to end up drawing from their own experiences in one way or another.

I write what feels real. I write things that are informed both by my own experience and by actual history.

Anyone can write your own life story.

We've always written from personal experiences.

I always tell people, I never get writer's block because it's coming straight from my brain, like, real-life experiences. I'm like the news. I'm just reporting it for myself.

I write about personal experiences.

Of course I write from experience, but I also do write from things that have happened in the world.

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

My writing is a product of how I would interact with things that have happened to me or things that have not happened to me but have happened to somebody else.