We've always written from personal experiences.

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

— Charlie Kaufman

I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

— Victoria Justice

My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.

— Isabel Allende

I think there's something in people where they often want to describe their personal experiences, but when it's regarding wealth, they're obviously very guarded.…

— Jamie Johnson

I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people around me, so you just sort of…

— James Bay

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean…

— Ayelet Waldman

“No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I'm able to draw outside my own personal experiences. No one wants to hear the song about what I really did today, which is…

— Craig Finn

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

— Miranda Lambert

Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.

— Christine McVie

I've always been very grateful that enough people have enjoyed reading what I've written that I've been able to pursue writing professionally.

— Christopher Paolini

I don't think anything you've written is immortal as yet.

— Terence Young

I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.

— J. J. Abrams

I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter…

— Justin Townes Earle