Peter Benchley Quotes

I think it's easier for me to write from experience.

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

I write about true-life type things.

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.

Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did.

I write about stuff that happens to me, so I try to live as interesting a life as possible.

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

We've always written from personal experiences.

I always tell people, I never get writer's block because it's coming straight from my brain, like, real-life experiences. I'm like the news. I'm just reporting it for myself.

I always pull from something I know really well. Because I would never want to write about something that I hadn't experienced or that I hadn't witnessed happen to somebody else because it wouldn't be genuine.

We just write about the stuff that happens to us.

All my songs are where I am.

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

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.

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.

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.