I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever…

“Essentially all serial offenders experience trauma in childhood that leaves them unable to form normal emotional and psychological connections with other humans.”

— Joanna Schaffhausen

My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my…

— Pam Grier

For a long time, it was all about chart position. 'If my record doesn't come in at No. 1, I'm a failure.' I cared…

— Jimmy Barnes

I think that definitely any trauma - whether it's childhood or later in life - affects you negatively, especially when it's suppressed, but there's…

— Roland Orzabal

Childhood trauma is childhood trauma, whether you're a player or a forklift driver. They are the same feelings, and there are the same solutions.

— Tony Adams

“...repeated trauma in childhood forms and deforms the personality. The child trapped in an abusive environment is faced with formidable tasks of adaptation. She…

— Judith Lewis Herman

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

— Jodi Picoult

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 than building…

— Craig Thompson

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

— Alison Bechdel

I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.

— Jonathan Tropper

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

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

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

“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