Family Quote by Ayelet Waldman

As a novelist, where do you go to tap into memories, and impressions, and sensations? It's usually, in my experience, your early life, before…

— William Boyd

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

— John Ashbery

You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger…

— Sigrid Nunez

When I was first approached about doing an autobiography, I said, 'absolutely not.' But when I sat down, memories came pouring out. It wrote…

— Julia Cameron

I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use my memory…

— Sefi Atta

I write about other people's experiences from time to time.

— Gabriella Wilson

I think a lot of things are written from experience, but then you become a writer and talk about other people's experience and you…

— Eddie Vedder

I also did a great amount of writing while doing research. It gave me the opportunity to meet and talk to people other than…

— Sasa Stanisic

As a writer, I try to turn my feelings and experiences into a different form entirely, something that gives me mastery over them and…

— Scott Spencer

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.

— Ellen Glasgow

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and…

— Kate DiCamillo

I embellished many details about my past experiences, and altered others in order to serve what I felt was the greater purpose of the…

— James Frey