Bryan Lee O'Malley Quotes

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.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.

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

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

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.

Sometimes I'm asked if I do research for my stories. The answer is yes and no. No, in the sense that I seldom plow through books at the library to gather material. Yes, in the sense that the first fifteen years of my life turned out to be one big research project.

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

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.

As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.

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

I write my songs because I've lived them.

The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.

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

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

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.

So much of what I write in fiction is based on true stories.

All my songs are where I am.

A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.

I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.

Whenever I'm writing a book, small details from my life always creep in.

It's the only way I really know how to tell the story is to be able to kind of live through the characters. So when I find something that resonates with me, it's usually because it cuts to something very real inside of me; something that I've gone through or experienced.

I can only write a book like 'The Tin Drum' or 'From the Diary of a Snail' at a special period of my life. The books came about because of how I felt and thought at the time.

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

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