Adam Clymer Quotes

Whenever I'm writing a book, small details from my life always creep in.

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

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer 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.

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.

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

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

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.

In 'Out of the Dark,' I'm talking about my own life. I'm not talking as a character or speaking as a character. I was not as free as when I write fiction.

When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.

The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.

I write about personal experiences.

Of course I write from experience, but I also do write from things that have happened in the world.

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

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

I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.

I write in a rush of memory.

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

I like it when I can hear directly from the writer: what they're seeing, what they're envisioning, and what their intention is.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.