Autobiographical Quotes · Page 2

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

— Alison Bechdel

All forms of landscape are autobiographical,

— Charles Wright

I am not an autobiographical writer.

— Yann Martel

“To read, or not to read…that is the question!”

— Mary Weaver

Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.

— Frederick Buechner

I think music as we know it, is autobiographical.

— Julius Hemphill

All literature, is, finally autobiographical.

— Jorge Luis Borges

All of my songs are autobiographical.

— Taylor Swift

One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard.

— Tom Paulin

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

— Paul Auster

I was actually born a robot, so 'Westworld' is just autobiographical.

— Lisa Joy

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.

— Anonymous

'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.

— Paul Schrader

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

— David Leavitt

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

— Ira Sachs

There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.

— Donald Barthelme

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

I don't think I have ever made a movie that is autobiographical, but you can't help but use experiences in your life…

— Rob Minkoff

The stories that I want to tell are completely, well, somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.

— Nicole Holofcener

It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book…

— Harper Lee

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their…

— Raymond Carver

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own…

— Stephen Daldry

I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that…

— Bret Easton Ellis

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

— Natalie Merchant

I'm Turkish-American; I was a freshman at Harvard in 1995 and 96. I did teach English in Hungary in the summer of…

— Elif Batuman

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

“You know now how deeply unhappy your mother was, and you also know that in his own fumbling way your father loved…

— Paul Auster

All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens…

— Pedro Almodovar

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

'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

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

Everyone knows that a lot of memoirs have made-up scenes; it's obvious. And everyone knows that half the time at least fictions…

— Lauren Slater

I love songs that are very autobiographical.

— Alanis Morissette

I can't deny 'Fleabag''s a very personal piece, but it's not autobiographical.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

All of my plays are deeply autobiographical. But it's not straight autobiography.

— Stephen Karam

I wouldn't say 'Frances Ha' is autobiographical, but it's definitely very personal.

— Noah Baumbach

'One Minus One' and 'Barcelona, 1975' are more or less autobiographical.

— Colm Toibin

I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it.

— Lee Krasner

Being an actress, it's hard to publish things without people thinking everything is autobiographical.

— Emma Roberts

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

— Jonathan Tropper