Taylor Swift Quotes

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 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.

Sometimes my lyrics may describe a situation that happened to a friend. Other times, I create a story from the ground up.

You are always drawing from your personal life and using your imagination to fill in the blanks.

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

As far as how I create games, I'm just reflecting what I feel, the things I have in my mind. I put those out there. Some of the things that I'm going through, the things that surround me, might be reflected there. But for me, it's a natural process. I just reflect what I feel into the game.

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.

When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.

So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.

To some extent, I draw on what I see around me; in other places, I imagine what I write.

People have asked me a lot, 'What comes first? The pictures or the story? The story or the picture?' It's hard to describe because often they seem to come at the same time. I'm seeing images while I'm thinking of the story.

I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment.

Each of my novels has come from a different place, and the processes are not always entirely conscious. I have lived off and on in America for a number of years and so have accumulated observations, found things interesting, been moved to tell stories about them.

The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

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

Every writer is going to end up drawing from their own experiences in one way or another.

Naturally, I mine my girlfriends' lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books.

I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.

Writing, when it works, one needs to access whatever it is that creates dreams.

I always write about something that moves me.

Most of my work - including everything from my own comics to the covers I've drawn for 'The New Yorker' - is the result of taking some personal experience or observation and then fictionalizing it to a degree.