Different Quote by David Rockwell

My work is mostly influenced by the concrete circumstances of our daily lives.

— Bell Hooks

My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life…

— Raymond Pettibon

A lot of my work comes from my life experiences.

— Kim Weston

A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around…

— Merlin Mann

I became a writer in spite of my environments.

— Robert E. Howard

My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear.

— David Allee

My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part…

— Jane Hirshfield

For me, writing became a way of processing not just my own experiences, but the experiences of other people, and their pain.

— Lisa Joy

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. -…

— Anne Tyler

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've always been very thematic with my work, very conceptual.

— Steven Van Zandt

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

— William Eggleston