Tommy Lee Quotes

One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience.

I'm gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I'm feeling that day.

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

To me, writing is a personal thing; I write super-personal, autobiographically.

I think I started writing because no one had ever told me you can write about the things you know in a musical. They don't have to come from some far off place.

I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.

We write to make sense of it all.

I got a damn good mind to write a book about all the feelings that I have inside about all these things that happened in our life that we're making happen and letting it happen when it shouldn't be happening.

Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

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

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

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.

Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. That's just the nature of the beast.

I never sit down to write anything personal unless I know the subject is going to go beyond my own experience and address something larger and more universal.

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'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

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.

Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.