Cheryl Mendelson Quotes

My act is based on my life.

Well I think everything up to this point that I've been exposed to in my life has had an influence on me in some way, shape, or form even if I'm not conscious of it. So I definitely think that my studies in wu-shu, kung-fu, karate, kenpo, taikwando, all of that stuff certainly has an affect. I don't think I follow any discipline traditionally.

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

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

My music is about my life. If it's something that I've lived, then it's something that I've written about.

My poems are always about my life in one way or another.

I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out there on all those early songs and poems. I hope no one ever finds it. I don't think it's my finest work.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life.

I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.

This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.

I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to show I've been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk that I display proudly for all to see. Nowadays, I don't want a "perfect" face and body; I want to wear the life I've lived.

When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.

You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them or the people you have met casually. It's part of your life.

The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.

I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.

Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.

Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.

I'm a young woman and I'm going to write about what I know.

Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.

... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.