Ananya Birla Quotes

I write about true-life type things.

I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people around me, so you just sort of keep this antenna up and on the lookout for things to say.

Anyone can write your own life story.

We've always written from personal experiences.

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.

Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.

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

If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.

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

I don't write about my life in my column.

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. I've got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

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

My act is pretty much me reflecting on what I want to talk about and what I think is funny and what has happened to me.

I want to write about my experiences since 'Speedbumps.'

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

I'm interested in people's stories, so I decided to tell part of mine.

In many ways, I've been writing personal stories all my life.

I'm putting out music that I love, and they're basically just stories of my life and how I try and teach myself to think about things. They're kind of like notes to self, basically.

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

Someday, I'll write a book about what I've been through.

I always say that I take my life and turn it into story, and I certainly did that with 'Countdown'.

I like autobiographies. I wouldn't mind making one of those.