Nia Vardalos Quotes

I do always write from a personal place.

If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

We've always written from personal experiences.

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

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

I think no one but me has the right to write about my life as I want to write it in a particular way. I don't think any other person will be able to tell the story of my life like how I have approached it. It works best when it's written by someone who has experienced it herself.

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.

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

I write about what I'm going through.

When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.

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

Anything I write is going to be autobiographical and true to some degree.

I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so.

I'm not really interested in myself in my writing. I can't see myself in the songs, even though I know different parts of me are there.

I try as hard as I can to write from a personal place and be genuine.

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.

All of my songs were about my firsthand experiences. Pretty much, I've learned how to become my own muse and take situations from my own life and wear them on my sleeve.

All my music is autobiographical, and that's the reason why people like my music. They know when I'm saying something on a song, I mean it. It comes from a real place and captures the realness in my life.

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

Having grown up so familiar with creating a pleasing facade, I now end up compelled to reveal things inside and say, 'Okay, now you really see me. Do you still love me?' And then it's never enough; it always has to be total self-revelation.

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.