Gerry Beckley Quotes

I prefer writing originals.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.

I never wanted to be that fad type of artist. When I looked up to artists, watching TV, I wanted to see somebody. I wanted to touch that person. I wanted to sound like them. I wanted to move like them. That' s what I want my fans to do. So that's why, everything that I do, the music I make, how I dress, it's all based off my lifestyle.

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

I love to write. I used to be a math teacher. And I like the idea that other people could write about the same subjects, but no one would write it just the way I do. It's very individual: a child could write the same story as somebody else, but it wouldn't come out the same.

I write what I'm interested in.

I never dreamed that the little ditties I wrote about annoying customers or bagel recipes would turn into a full-length musical comedy. But a very wise person told me to 'write what you know'. So I did.

Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!'

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

Don't imitate. Write what you know about, that has to be your goal.

People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or something, when my writing really comes out of silence. If a storyteller came up to me, I'd run away.

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

All writers are magpies, right? We're always stealing bits from different places and then weaving them into our little nest.

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

I don't know how I do it, but I've written about everything. I've written about my shoes.

You borrow from the greats, and you make your own path without losing the core of who you are.

What provides you with subject matter is your own language - and that's all.

Whatever's going on in my life shows up in the writing room.

Of course, I write. I have stories to tell. But I don't want to do superficial stuff any more.

I always tell people, I never get writer's block because it's coming straight from my brain, like, real-life experiences. I'm like the news. I'm just reporting it for myself.

Just write what comes to you.