John Barton Quotes

'Hedwig' isn't particularly based on me, but I think that it is autobiographical in terms of emotion.

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

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.

All my work comes out of my life.

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

In a sense, any story that anyone writes is going to be autobiographical - whether it deals directly with the author's experience or not - because it captures what we're obsessed with while working on that particular piece.

I only write about what I do, what happens to me.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

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've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life.

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.

We've always written from personal experiences.

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

All of my plays are deeply autobiographical. But it's not straight autobiography.

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 love songs that are very autobiographical.

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

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.

I think all writing is necessarily autobiographical to a greater or lesser extent, and the less it tries to be confessional, the more likely it is that you're somehow sneaking the things you need to say in there.

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

There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.

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

Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.