Writing Quote by Bruce Springsteen

“Just because I'm a writer doesn't mean that my personal experiences are embellished. Every life has a story.”

— Terry a O'Neal

“I am a writer, I'm supposed to be intense and emotional,”

— Natasha Duncan-Drake

Most writers write from their own experiences. That is where the honesty and intensity of emotions come from.

— Ravi Subramanian

There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write -…

— Ian Anderson

Look, anything any writer writes is going to be on some level autobiographical. Part of the funny/sad thing is that you don't always know…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and people out…

— Diablo Cody

I think what makes you feel so connected with certain writers isn't a matter of autobiographical detail, but that the emotions are real. The…

— Chris Kraus

“Writing is mostly a mind game. It’s about tricking yourself into becoming who you are. If you do this long enough, you begin to…

— Jeff Goins

“Writing is emotional...it is baring your soul to the world and waiting for someone to acknowledge and love it, or shun and hate it,…

— Anne-Rae Vasquez

“Writing is my passion, expression and an incessant obsession.”

— Pushpa Rana

“There’s a chasm between writing about yourself and writing about your personal life. A lot of young writers want to turn their lives into…

— Billy Marshall Stoneking

“The writer’s special talent is to empathize with people and imagine their lives. We know them as we write them.”

— Kay Kenyon