About Quote by John Grogan

As a writer, there is only so much of your own life you can draw on.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

You need to write on your own and produce your own life.

— Courtney Love

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

But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw…

— Grace Paley

Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that…

— Judith Krantz

“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind…

— Yiyun Li

What I'm trying to say is that a lot that lies behind being able to live the writing life is psychological and wrapped up…

— Nathan Englander

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

— Rita Moreno

Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.

— Robert Rodriguez

Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

— Pat Conroy

Writing is my way of trying to understand vast things that probably I'll never truly understand, a way of exploring a Big Question, of…

— Leslie Pietrzyk