Amor Towles Quotes

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

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

I did have wonderful things to draw from, from my own experience and also just from friends and people I'd gone to school with who were very much immersed in this world right now.

I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.

People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

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

I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.

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

As autobiographical as say the stuff on 'Rumours' was, I don't think we thought of it as such when we were writing it.

I decided with 'Savage Season' to use a lot of things in my life as the basis.

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.

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

I don't draw on my inner life in my work.

I would never make a purely autobiographical movie, because it would be incredibly boring. But I always bring something. It's usually some emotional truth I've experienced, like in 'Get Him to the Greek,' the relationship between Jonah Hill and Elisabeth Moss, I had certainly had that kind of relationship with a girlfriend.

Directing is all tied up with childhood loneliness. It's such an odd thing to end up doing.

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

I like to tell stories in my writing but I definitely use my own life experiences to tell that story.

'Tender' is my most strongly autobiographical play.

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

I write about personal experiences.

The artist is inherently a romantic to some degree, and as such, I believe in a muse. But I don't try to analyze too much where it comes from.