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The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you’re hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them  (Writing About Yourself Quotes) Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go ‘Oh My God, that’s the reason that happened.’ Writing about it, you’re forced to really examine things  (Writing About Yourself Quotes) I’d had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a character, about being inside another mind that you had to create out of yourself. As I moved toward a life in writing, I found many of the things I’d learned in acting school still applied  (Writing About Yourself Quotes) There are so many ways of posturing that people associate with being a writer. They imagine you wearing a beret and drinking only red wine and being full of yourself, and so, for a long time, the way I felt about writing was too private. I felt it too important and didn’t want to be teased about it. So I lied about it.  (Writing About Yourself Quotes) That’s what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it’s completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you’ve been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.  (Writing About Yourself Quotes) The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.  (Writing About Yourself Quotes) Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing  (Writing About Yourself Quotes) Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason  (Writing About Yourself Quotes) Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from  (Writing About Yourself Quotes) When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books  (Writing About Yourself Quotes) The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it  (Writing About Yourself Quotes)