Michael Trevino Quotes

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

I just simply rap about my life.

All I've ever done since I was 17 is tell stories. You know, I'm a storyteller. And that's what I'm going to keep on doing, especially now, kind of embracing and making sure that we tell immigration.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

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.

We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.

I'm not on a record like some rapper trying to boast about my clothes or where I'm from. I'm creating stories, experiences, the way places make me feel, the way a person makes me feel.

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

The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal as someone like Marc Maron or a lot of comedians, but they are essentially my life and my interpretation of it.

I don't have to worry about writing jokes. I just tell stories about things that have happened to me. As long as I'm alive and I'm living and I'm experiencing different things every day, the show will always change.

The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.

I love to write what I see and what I do and what I experience, and I like to see if people can relate to that. I don't know if I am as good at making up a story in my head that has no truth to it, so that is a challenge for me.

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.

I knew I couldn't do what Eddie Izzard does, so I just tried to write some stories that were based, or partly based, on my own experiences.

'Ghost City' began as a idea. I felt that I hadn't read or heard a great deal about the sort of life that I thought I had, and I just thought that it would be interesting to sit down and see if I could put it down onto paper.

My act is pretty much me reflecting on what I want to talk about and what I think is funny and what has happened to me.

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

Part of being an artist is being able to write about the world you live in and the times that you've been a part of.

Personal narrative is one of the few things where people don't get caught up in fighting over esoteric rhetoric.

I was portraying the family through my eyes. Everything that's happened in the strip has happened to me.

I've been writing stories all my life. My very first story had two little black girls riding horses. They were both me, too, so that's how into me I was.

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.