I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
A lot of the novels that I've really enjoyed in my life, whether it's Tolstoy's 'Cossacks,' or 'Sons and Lovers' or 'Jude… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Everything you do is autobiographical. Yeah, I grew up in a town called Redding and I had older brothers and sisters so… — Ricky Gervais 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
I believe in the autobiographical concept only to the degree that I am able to put onto film all that's passing through… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
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 truth about autobiographical songs, he realized, was that you had to make the present become the past, somehow: you had to… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I felt at some point that I had nothing to lose, and [laughs] maybe I was wrong. I think, you know, there's… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I have very rarely written autobiographical stuff. "Greasy Lake" and some other works have some autobiographical elements, as does "Birnam Wood," the… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“Of course, if I write a first-person novel about a woman writer, I am inviting every book reviewer to apply the autobiographical… — John Irving Copy Share Image
As a gay writer and someone who began by writing autobiographical fiction, it's hard to get away from chatter of "You're just… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
For the most part, this record is autobiographical. At some point, the story of 'The Houston Kid' takes my experiences from 6… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
My films have always had an element of immediate autobiography, in that I shoot any particular scene according to the mood I'm… — Michelangelo Antonioni 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
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
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
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
. . . 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
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
The subject matter is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement, really. — Lucian Copy Share Image
I am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
“Most of my writing is emotionally autobiographical. You’ve got to pull up the things that mean something to you in order for… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
There seems to be a tremendous desire among many people now to know authors and how they work, to know what's autobiographical… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't… — Matthew McGrory Copy Share Image
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… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
As autobiographical as say the stuff on 'Rumours' was, I don't think we thought of it as such when we were writing… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
“Attempting to express a person’s objective reality and subjective state of mind with the written word is an endless task because writing… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
If you think of any long-term artist that makes music throughout several decades, you would hope that it's autobiographical and a form… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Sometimes the autobiographical link in each story is very literal, like I did work at The Texas School for the Blind, and… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
There's a beautiful, kind of seductive trap in being autobiographical in our writing of songs: We just get stuck in our own… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature. — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
Look, anything any writer writes is going to be on some level autobiographical. Part of the funny/sad thing is that you don't… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
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