Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.

All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.

— Anonymous

I had a cheat sheet because I knew Tarell [Alvin McCraney]. His movie is largely autobiographical. I knew about certain events in his life…

— Andre Holland

I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I just use…

— Bill Bryson

Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less exciting than…

— Anonymous

“Often what we believe about God says more about us than it does about God. Our theology is like a mirror to the soul.…

— John Mark Comer

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

— Karen Armstrong

It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.

— J. B. Priestley

“Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat, and endeavoring…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I like major theology. I like Karl Barth, and I like John Calvin, and I like Martin Luther. The scale of thinking and the…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Philosophy is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat. Metaphysics is like being in a dark room and looking…

— Anonymous

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 is exactly…

— Cecily von Ziegesar

Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it…

— Antonio Damasio

Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's so angry."…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Because of the wonderfully positive response to 'Life's That Way,' I am considering writing some more autobiographical stuff - maybe another book. I don't…

— Jim Beaver

“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. What kind…

— Yiyun Li