Intimate Writing Quotes

When I write, it's intimate. I write in the car, and I don't even hear, like, ambulances driving past me because I'm in my car, listening to the music, writing. I record in an attic with no booth. It's not like I'm in the dark with candles, but it's like a house, a home, and I record like that. I think that plays into the music.

Writing should ... be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a parent ... and writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger

I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or sometimes it can be someone who's close to me.

Historically speaking, the books I usually connect with the most are written in first-person narrative.

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.

Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a state of great intensity. The kind of state you would be in before going to bed with your partner. That heightened state when you're in a carnal embrace: time stops and nothing else matters. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

As a writer, penning down personal stuff was not easy for me, as it was way too close to my heart.

I started writing diaries, and mine were horrible. Oh, the monotony. Oh, the angst. I said, 'I don't want anyone to find these!' I destroyed them.

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

I've talked with friends about this: when you write about yourself, that's what people connect to. When you write a sermon or a lesson, that may not reach people. I've learned a lot from people who have been writing about themselves.

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.

I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate.

I'm such a first-person writer.

Personal narrative is one of the few things where people don't get caught up in fighting over esoteric rhetoric.

I am a very personal writer. I write direct to the reader. I don't hold back.

The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.

My compositions are, I would say, like pages ripped from a diary that I don't really want to share, but that I almost feel the need to share. It's a way for me to get things out that I can't get out in life, you know, in real regular conversation with people.

I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.