Autobiographical Quotes · Page 3

In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.

— Sam Shepard

Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.

— Kim Edwards

Anything I write is going to be autobiographical and true to some degree.

— Shooter Jennings

I'd liked my first record, it was autobiographical and beautiful.

— Lana Del Rey

All art is autobiographical. You can only create what you are.

— Dale Carnegie

Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.

— William S. Burroughs

I've yet to write a stand-up show that isn't autobiographical.

— Mike Birbiglia

'Hedwig' isn't particularly based on me, but I think that it is autobiographical in terms of emotion.

— John Cameron Mitchell

Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more…

— Ari Marcopoulos

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was…

— Jessica Savitch

“One day someone will say to me: “Is it autobiographical?” And I shall reply: “Only the bit where I die.” To die…

— Tim Roux

I don't cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel, 'Say Her Name.'

— David Grann

The stories that I want to tell are completely, well, somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.

— Nicole Holofcener

I don't think I have ever made a movie that is autobiographical, but you can't help but use experiences in your life…

— Rob Minkoff

It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book…

— Harper Lee

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their…

— Raymond Carver

There's a lot of material from my life in my books, but they're not really autobiographical, in the sense that they're not…

— Sigrid Nunez

“Autobiographical writing stands as lasting memorial for enduring the travails of an earthly life. Writing is an apt technique to score our…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.…

— James Taylor

“Of course, if I write a first-person novel about a woman writer, I am inviting every book reviewer to apply the autobiographical…

— John Irving

I have very rarely written autobiographical stuff. "Greasy Lake" and some other works have some autobiographical elements, as does "Birnam Wood," the…

— T.C. Boyle

The truth about autobiographical songs, he realized, was that you had to make the present become the past, somehow: you had to…

— Nick Hornby

I felt at some point that I had nothing to lose, and [laughs] maybe I was wrong. I think, you know, there's…

— Billy Collins

I'm Turkish-American; I was a freshman at Harvard in 1995 and 96. I did teach English in Hungary in the summer of…

— Elif Batuman

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

— Lucian Freud

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

— Terry McMillan

Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix.

— Frankie Cosmos

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own…

— Stephen Daldry

I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that…

— Bret Easton Ellis

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

— Natalie Merchant

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.

— Harvey Pekar

The most autobiographical thing I've ever written is my second novel, called 'An Ocean in Iowa.' That is pretty close to my…

— Peter Hedges

“Because what I am also suddenly know thinking about is that it could be an absolutely autobiographical novel that would not start…

— David Markson

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

— Paul Auster

It's actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It's a matter of carving away what doesn't fit rather…

— Craig Thompson

Songs sort of come from everywhere - people, places, coffee, the aisles of Target... I tend to write pretty autobiographical so a…

— Matthew Koma

People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my…

— Andrea Arnold

Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my…

— Janet Jackson

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

— Lisel Mueller

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

— John Berger