Salman Rushdie Quotes

I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.

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

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

To me, writing is a personal thing; I write super-personal, autobiographically.

Writing from life is how I feel most comfortable.

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.

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.

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

I essentially write for myself.

I only write about what I do, what happens to me.

I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life.

I write about what I'm going through.

I write about my life.

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

When I write for myself, I think about myself and draw from my own experience.

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

We've always written from personal experiences.

I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.

You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.

I read 'The Young Landlords' and felt almost a chemical change. What I realized while reading that book was that I could write in my voice, use my tongue, my language, my style, and write a story.

I want to write from my own experience.

I tend to write from a personal place, and most of the time when I'm writing by myself, it's coming from something I've experienced.

All of my songs were about my firsthand experiences. Pretty much, I've learned how to become my own muse and take situations from my own life and wear them on my sleeve.

I like to write about what I've seen and experiences I've been through.