Christmas Quote by Megan Phelps-Roper

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've been in a long and happy relationship for 22 years and it's never inspired me to write anything. It's too good - nothing…

— Emma Donoghue

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

— Len Deighton

I'm still writing from personal experiences, which is what people connected with in the first place.

— Clairo

I write about different things. Anything that has affected me. Anything that I have liked. Anything that I feel strongly about. Any experience.

— Tabu

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

— Gabriella Wilson

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences…

— Jeffery Deaver

As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use…

— Ayelet Waldman

Writing about what happened to my brother and to my family was awful. It was hard to look back at how much suffering there…

— Akhil Sharma

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

I think we need stories, and we need to tell the stories over and over and over not only to remind us, but to…

— Colum McCann

I write about personal experiences.

— Ananya Birla