I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I would like to do something autobiographical, set to music. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I'm going… — Phoebe Snow Copy Share Image
The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
[Oscar Wilde's Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
I always sing them as though they are autobiographical, even if they're not, and most of my songs do come from something… — Ronee Blakley Copy Share Image
I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A lot of… — Alexis Dziena Copy Share Image
I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
Some of songs are autobiographical and some of it is more telling a story from someone else's perspective. It's healthy for me… — Jonathan Jackson Copy Share Image
All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some… — Raina Telgemeier Copy Share Image
What happened in 2008 stopped people in their tracks. People stopped looking at their homes simply as commodities to exploit and starting… — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in the suburbs of Toronto and listening to… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
“You know now how deeply unhappy your mother was, and you also know that in his own fumbling way your father loved… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Everything is personal - the poems and the crime novels. I have never been involved in any murders, but there are strong… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Look, anything any writer writes is going to be on some level autobiographical. Part of the funny/sad thing is that you don't… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the personages. In fact, I am behind everything that happens… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I'd never done any Beckett before 'Krapp,' and I haven't done any of his other plays since. I've always felt that 'Krapp'… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
“And when Deirdre Bair went to interview Beckett for the biography the first thing he said was, ‘So you’ve come to demonstrate… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After 'Blankets,' I was sick of drawing myself and doing this autobiographical, mundane, Midwestern sort of comics. I wanted to create something… — Craig Thompson Copy Share Image
I am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
“Most of my writing is emotionally autobiographical. You’ve got to pull up the things that mean something to you in order for… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
There seems to be a tremendous desire among many people now to know authors and how they work, to know what's autobiographical… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
As autobiographical as say the stuff on 'Rumours' was, I don't think we thought of it as such when we were writing… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't… — Matthew McGrory Copy Share Image
The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
There's a beautiful, kind of seductive trap in being autobiographical in our writing of songs: We just get stuck in our own… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature. — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
“Attempting to express a person’s objective reality and subjective state of mind with the written word is an endless task because writing… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
If you think of any long-term artist that makes music throughout several decades, you would hope that it's autobiographical and a form… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Sometimes the autobiographical link in each story is very literal, like I did work at The Texas School for the Blind, and… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
I believe in the autobiographical concept only to the degree that I am able to put onto film all that's passing through… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image