Natalie Merchant Quotes

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

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

Everything I write is about me.

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

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

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.

I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.

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 necessarily am prepared to write about anybody else's life but mine.

I've never been a confessional writer.

I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.

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

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

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

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.

I'm really bad at describing my own life.

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.

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

I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.

The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it.