Eugene Mirman Quotes

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.

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.

We've always written from personal experiences.

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

I think no one but me has the right to write about my life as I want to write it in a particular way. I don't think any other person will be able to tell the story of my life like how I have approached it. It works best when it's written by someone who has experienced it herself.

I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey my own experience as an individual to the world.

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

Most of the songs I write are just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake.

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.

I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life.

I write about my life.

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

I always write from a personal place - whether it be about my friends or myself or a story that I heard.

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.

There's always an element of truth to what I write because that's why I write.

I don't think I could write about something I've never experienced or felt; all my songs are about things I've been through.

When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

My music is about my life. If it's something that I've lived, then it's something that I've written about.