Autobiographical Quotes

None of my movies are autobiographical.

— Susanne Bier

I love James Baldwin's autobiographical writing.

— Carrie Brownstein

'Tender' is my most strongly autobiographical play.

— Abi Morgan

My books aren't autobiographical.

— Emily Giffin

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

— James Joyce

“autobiographical novel. He fancied himself”

— Dinesh D'Souza

All art is autobiographical.

— Federico Fellini

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— Thomas S. Kuhn

The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.

— Paul Auster

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

— Lucian Freud

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

— Sam Shepard

A first building is like a first novel, it is always autobiographical.

— Santiago Calatrava

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

Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction.

— Lisa Unger

I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

— Anonymous

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

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

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

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

[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

My first book was called, 'Mountain, Get Out of My Way,' where I did an autobiographical sketch, if you will, looking back…

— Montel Williams

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

Like most filmmakers and writers, there are roots in my own life, but they are stories that I invent. There was a…

— Philippe Garrel

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

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

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

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

What happened in 2008 stopped people in their tracks. People stopped looking at their homes simply as commodities to exploit and starting…

— Kevin McCloud

“One has to imagine the impact of Paddy on an old count from eastern Europe, barely able to live off his much-diminished…

— Artemis Cooper

I believe everything is autobiographical. If it's not strictly about you, it's your peers, your obsessions, things that make you angry, or…

— Steve Toltz

“The Positive Paradigm is: . . . a new, inclusive reality map, one people worldwide can easily comprehend and agree upon. It…

— Patricia E. West

“The neural basis for the self, as I see it, resides with the continuous reactivation of at least two sets of representations.…

— António R. Damásio

“is a little remarkable, that—though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends—an…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Beautiful day out there,” I said, perching on the stool and crossing my legs. “It’s autumn, Sunday, great weather, and crowded everywhere…

— Haruki Murakami

“And, again, this story needs to be revised, is under revision as I type these words. The only way to write an…

— Jill Christman

I wouldn't say that my songs are autobiographical.

— George Harrison