Mark Millar Quotes

The stories in the songs come from my real life.

Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.

All my songs are things that have happened to me.

All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.

All my stories are mainly slice-of-life and rooted to real issues and situations that I have experienced myself.

In my films, a lot of the situations come from real life.

You can write a whole fiction, and you're talking to people who have gone through that, in real life. But the truth of it is that when you're talking to those people, you don't care about your movie anymore. You just want to hear about what they have gone through. You want all of the details. It's amazing.

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

Everything I've experienced, things that my friends have experienced and we talk about, things that are on the news - all aspects of life are in my message.

People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.

As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.

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.

I think every character I've ever come up with has been based on someone or something I've known.

There are always certain things that you tap into, your own personal experiences, and I try to base my characters on someone I know or someone I've seen.

I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people around me, so you just sort of keep this antenna up and on the lookout for things to say.

We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.

'Butterfly Mosque' came out of the emails I wrote to family and friends back home after moving to Egypt.

So much of my own life inspires what I write. Whether it's work, family, friends, motherhood, I am a writer who tends to write what she knows. In 'Revenge Wears Prada,' a great deal of my own life finds its way into the book.

There are autobiographical elements to the albums, and when I write, I always reference my own life as well as other things, so I'm just like any novelist or any fiction writer who tells stories.

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

Most of my characters are an amalgamation of people that I've met, my family, or myself. Being a writer, you can draw only from what you know. I am lucky to have really rich and interesting people in my family for, you know, interesting family nights and great characters.

My shows and my material are grounded in reality. It's pretty much something that's either happened in my life or in the news, and I start there and give you my take on it.

A lot of times, I have personal things, things I go through that I may exaggerate or make a story around, but it always has a meaning related to something I've been through for real.

I write about personal experiences.

Of course I write from experience, but I also do write from things that have happened in the world.