Lily Koppel Quotes

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

I've always kept a journal and brought storytelling into my teaching.

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

Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

Most things I go through I have to write about.

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

Everything I write is about me.

When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?

I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. I've got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am.

I don't know why I write what I write.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

I used to love writing in my journal.

My songs are just little letters to me.

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

I write about my life.