William Joyce Quotes

I started writing stories when I was six years old. I was a very shy kid, extremely shy, and I had a fabulous first-grade teacher who told me to write.

Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life.

I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations.

I sat down and wrote what I remembered about being nine, and that eventually became 'Amelia's Notebook.'

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.

When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.

Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.

When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.

In many ways, I've been writing personal stories all my life.

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.

I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.

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

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication.

Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies.

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.

I have written stories since I was a child.

The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it.

In 'Out of the Dark,' I'm talking about my own life. I'm not talking as a character or speaking as a character. I was not as free as when I write fiction.

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

I guess if I wrote a book one day, it would be about hair.

A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.

Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.