Phoebe Bridgers Quotes

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

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

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'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.

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.

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.

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about.

It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and write about it. It's that quick.

I write my songs because I've lived them.

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.

Most writers write from their own experiences. That is where the honesty and intensity of emotions come from.

I don't write anything that I hadn't experienced or hadn't been through.

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

It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters... there's always a lesson to be learned from them.

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

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.

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

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

I don't write about my life in my column.