Anne Roiphe Quotes

I realized that even though I had this urge, this longing, to write about other people, in order for it to be emotionally gripping, I needed to be in there somehow.

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.

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

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out.

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.

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

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.

When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

To me, writing is a personal thing; I write super-personal, autobiographically.

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

When I write for myself, I think about myself and draw from my own experience.

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 write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.

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

All my songs are based on personal experience, and 'Lost Without You' came out fully born.

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.

We just write about the stuff that happens to us.

I like to write about what I've seen and experiences I've been through.

I don't think I could write about something I've never experienced or felt; all my songs are about things I've been through.

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