Sam Fender Quotes

I think, as most people are, I'm fascinated with love, relationships, and my daily life so I'm very inclined to make films about those things.

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives; it's like a marriage.

You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to war. It's right under your nose.

I write about my experiences, so a lot of times, I do write about people.

We write about things that we've done or things that have happened to people around us.

I've actually always started with what feels most natural. Which is, the people who surround me in my daily life. So, the first show I ever wrote, which is called 'Surface Transit,' was based in part on people I knew from my family. Co-workers, ex-boyfriends. All of that kind of thing.

Boy, do I got some stories to tell.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.

I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write.

A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

I see things with my own eyes, just as if they were the first eyes that ever saw, and then I set about to tell, as best I can, just what I've seen.

A novel is about people.

When I set out to write, I see it very visually. I almost feel like a reporter. I'm relating what I'm seeing and hearing, so it's kind of watching a play for me.

The name of the album is 'Non-Fiction'. And, I'm calling it that because the name of every song on this album is derived from a true story. Now, some of the stories are mine. Some of the stories belong to some of my fans.

Like any compelling show on television, what works best in WWE is relationships. What's the relationship between these two people, and how does the conflict manifest itself into box office?

I look for subjects who have stories to tell - who are looking to tell something.

A lot of things that I write about have happened to people around me, if not necessarily to me or in the organizations I've worked in. Having said that, it's fiction and has a lot to do with my imagination and creativity.

I get inspiration from all kinds of things: I can get it from hanging out with my son, from hanging out with my wife, from checking out different artists, from hearing something at a party.

I've got stories on every one of my albums, big ones.

All my stories are mainly slice-of-life and rooted to real issues and situations that I have experienced myself.

I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.