Being honest Quote by Jeff Tweedy

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

— Mary Karr

If you're going to write about your life, you must write about your life.

— Rita Moreno

I think my parents' lives are worthy of writing about. I don't think my life is particularly worthy of writing about.

— Nguyen Viet Thang

It actually took me 20 years to want to write about my youth. I was definitely always a little intimidated about writing about that…

— Greg Mottola

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is…

— Ben Marcus

You can't be a writer and have nothing to write about. You have to have life experiences.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and…

— John Grogan

Growing up, if I didn't want to talk to someone about the way that I was feeling, I would go write instead. I think…

— Gracie Abrams

I don't think my writing has much to do with my age. For me, my biography is more about what I was reading at…

— Helen Oyeyemi

What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.

— Reeve Carney

When you're young, your perception of what it means to be a writer is often less about the writing and more about what seems…

— Hanya Yanagihara