Autobiographical Quotes

96 quotes by 88 authors

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster
The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life. — John Berger
A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to… — 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 mind. — Maya Angelou
I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains… — Shirley Jackson
It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard' was autobiographical. I've got nobody… — Gloria Swanson
If my choice is to, I donâ€™t know, be with a lot of men, or if I enjoy a really physical relationship, I donâ€™t think… — Lana Del Rey
All forms of landscape are autobiographical, — Charles Wright
All art is autobiographical. — Federico Fellini
The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the listener.… — Will Oldham
The most purely autobiographical Âfiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autoÂbiographical story than 'The MetaÂmorphosis'. — Jonathan Franzen
People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have… — Curtis Sittenfeld
Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical. — Terry McMillan
The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture - religions, justice, trade,… — Antonio Damasio
The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and… — Antonio Damasio
The Spirit of Cities presents a new approach to the study of cities in which the focus is placed on a city's defining ethos or… — Nathan Glazer
The subject matter is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement, really. — Lucian
Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs time… — Diane Setterfield
I believe that almost all important, useful ideas are simple. Peter Whittle has recently put it nicely in an autobiographical essay. "If a piece of… — Dennis Lindley

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