Brian Posehn Quotes

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.

We've always written from personal experiences.

I write about personal experiences.

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

I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.

Anyone can write your own life story.

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

You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.

I love the privilege of looking back on my life every three years, turning it into a comedy show, and sharing it with an audience. It's incredibly cathartic.

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 never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

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

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.

When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.

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.

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

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.

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.

In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.

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

I write about true-life type things.