All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture -… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
All art is autobiographical - if it's not, it's not going to quicken on-stage, and it's not going to come alive. — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
All writers are autobiographical to a degree and writing about the nature of their inner life. My inner life has always been… — Francis Levy Copy Share Image
I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My work has never been autobiographical. Although the subjects are driven on a personal perspective it's sort of elevated above me. I… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self. — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Copy Share Image
'Normal' is not clinical, it's not autobiographical, and I don't claim to be objective. It's strictly my perceptions and thoughts about the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Sometimes it bursts from your imagination fully formed, sometimes you absorb from nonfiction, sometimes you're able to imprint your own autobiographical experiences… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
My first book was called, 'Mountain, Get Out of My Way,' where I did an autobiographical sketch, if you will, looking back… — Montel Williams Copy Share Image
Like most filmmakers and writers, there are roots in my own life, but they are stories that I invent. There was a… — Philippe Garrel Copy Share Image
When you write something you know, you're making a story that will work, whether or not there's bits taken. It's always funny… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
“[I]nternalized experiences of selfhood are linked to autobiographical narratives, which are linked to biographies, legal testimonies, and medical case histories, which are… — Anthony Kenny Copy Share Image
I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightforward. The things that tend to move me… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
The subject matter is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement, really. — Lucian Copy Share Image
I've written a book about my mother, and I don't remember anyone going to Antigua or calling up my mother and verifying… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
All my works over the years have been autobiographical in the sense they reflect some part of my life, although I have… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobiographical prose. But I just thought that… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think,… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
It always seems to people that I'm avoiding saying, 'It's autobiographical,' but I really do believe that human beings make stories and… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity.… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Kabul Express' was very autobiographical but 'New York' is a wider and much larger journey. Though it has been drawn from my… — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
Generally, I don't pencil, especially with the autobiographical comics, although I've usually planed out composition in my head during the scripting stage.… — Jeffrey Brown Copy Share Image
Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
Reviewers try to square the antics of a writer's life with the antics in the fiction. Even satirical verbal play is too… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Rather than attend to a world considered as if it's out there, I have to start to attend to me. That led… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
What I was talking about was, of course, very autobiographical - '68 was the moment when all the young people were incredibly… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
'Illustrado' is not an autobiography. Only the ideas are autobiographical; the ideas of bitterness, frustration, unchanging society, an individual lost, social awkwardness...… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect,… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I had a cheat sheet because I knew Tarell [Alvin McCraney]. His movie is largely autobiographical. I knew about certain events in… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
There certainly is no secret in that there are plenty of people who don't like plenty of my movies. Each one of… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed,… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
“Could I write an autobiographical novel, I wonder? Can one make a book out of the very essence of one's self? Perhaps… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
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