Andre Holland Quotes

With most of the events in the books [ Bridget Jones Diaries ] I draw a little bit from my own life and some from what I see happening around me.

Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.

People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.

I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people around me, so you just sort of keep this antenna up and on the lookout for things to say.

Every character I do is based on someone I know.

So much of my own life inspires what I write. Whether it's work, family, friends, motherhood, I am a writer who tends to write what she knows. In 'Revenge Wears Prada,' a great deal of my own life finds its way into the book.

All my songs are things that have happened to me.

I decided with 'Savage Season' to use a lot of things in my life as the basis.

I tend not to think that anything I happen to be reporting on in my films is special. Meaning that people are always saying to me, 'you must love New York, you have it in all your films.' But mostly it's because I know New York, and I know Brooklyn at this time. I know the lives there, because I have lived in them.

I've certainly been someone who has loved to mine the trials and tribulations of growing up in general, and the people who are in our lives, and I don't mind pulling from them and writing things down on my phone that my family says.

'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.

I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments in one day and I told the story to some friends, one of whom worked in the 'Village Voice' and asked me to turn it into an essay.

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 think every character I've ever come up with has been based on someone or something I've known.

There are always certain things that you tap into, your own personal experiences, and I try to base my characters on someone I know or someone I've seen.

A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.

There is a lot of my childhood in 'The Sandcastle Girls.'

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

The things that I paint are things that I know very well.

The way I look at life, whatever I'm doing at that time in my life is going to be reflected in my songs, for the most part.

I write about personal experiences.

In my films, a lot of the situations come from real life.

Kendrick Lamar taught me that life experience is an important part of being a good illustrator. When you're illustrating a story, you have to go based off of your personal experiences.

The stories in the songs come from my real life.