Shooter Jennings Quotes

I tend to write from a personal place, and most of the time when I'm writing by myself, it's coming from something I've experienced.

We've always written from personal experiences.

I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.

I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so.

You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.

In a sense, any story that anyone writes is going to be autobiographical - whether it deals directly with the author's experience or not - because it captures what we're obsessed with while working on that particular piece.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

I only write about what I do, what happens to me.

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

I write about my life.

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

Anyone can write your own life story.

To me, writing is a personal thing; I write super-personal, autobiographically.

When I write for myself, I think about myself and draw from my own experience.

I don't think I could write about something I've never experienced or felt; all my songs are about things I've been through.

Writing from life is how I feel most comfortable.

I don't think I necessarily am prepared to write about anybody else's life but mine.

Most things I go through I have to write about.

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.