Autobiographical Quotes

96 Autobiographical quotes by 88 unique authors

Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction. — William S. Burroughs
In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The purpose of it,… — Sam Shepard
Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be… — Matthew McGrory
Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them. — Alison Bechdel
Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets out al-Ghazali's Ash?arite… — Peter Adamson
Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical. — Frederick Buechner
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised. — David Leavitt
The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something… — Tracy Chapman
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
I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing. — Natalie Merchant
When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very… — Ben Marcus
Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical. — Lisel Mueller
In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory.… — Rohinton Mistry
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 what… — Cecily von Ziegesar
There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there. — Donald Barthelme
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 writing. That doesn't… — Janet Fitch
In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul. — Dario Argento
I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit… — James Lee Burke
Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be. — Jeffrey Eugenides
Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience. — Lasse Hallstrom
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
I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life. — Stephen Daldry
It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually… — Jeffrey Eugenides
All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens and that is… — Pedro Almodovar

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