Teddy Pendergrass Quotes

There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.

I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time.

I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything.

And I identify too closely with my reading, with my writing.

Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.

To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.

I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression.

If I come across an issue, or something I feel strongly about, and I happen to think of a song that would go in that direction, then I do it. But that's not what I start out, necessarily, to do. Sometimes I may have an idea for a song - "Well, I'm going to write about a thing.

I think writing is a much more personal thing.

In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.

My muse changes all the time because I think every designer is a bit of a muse for themselves in a way - they just don't want to say it.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

'Santa Sangre' is the picture I love the best, myself, because 'El Topo' and 'The Holy Mountain' I made with my head, and 'Santa Sangre' I made with my feelings, with my heart. It's an emotional picture. And it's more real for me, that picture.

There are bits of me in all my characters.

If you want to express yourself, you need the services of a lover or a psychiatrist; if you want to express a book, you might conceivably manage it.

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.

My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.

Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.

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.

If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose.

Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.