Autobiographical Quotes

96 Autobiographical quotes by 88 unique authors

Everything you do is autobiographical. Yeah, I grew up in a town called Redding and I had older brothers and sisters so it's all my… — Ricky Gervais
My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings. — Lucian Freud
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. — Federico Fellini
I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It's all… — Janet Jackson
'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes some autobiographical details… — George R. R. Martin
All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent. — Jeanne Moreau
I love songs that are very autobiographical. — Alanis Morissette
The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through… — Alice Munro
Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in the suburbs of Toronto and listening to heavy metal, and… — Mike Myers
'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad. — Gary Oldman
I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these… — Jodi Picoult
What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the… — Josh Radnor
Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set… — Jessica Savitch
All of my songs are autobiographical. — Taylor Swift
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
'One Minus One' and 'Barcelona, 1975' are more or less autobiographical. — Colm Toibin
. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are,… — Kim Addonizio
To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his… — Robertson Davies
Everyone knows that a lot of memoirs have made-up scenes; it's obvious. And everyone knows that half the time at least fictions contain literal autobiographical… — Lauren Slater
All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction. — P.D. James
The truth about autobiographical songs, he realized, was that you had to make the present become the past, somehow: you had to take a feeling… — Nick Hornby
The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad,… — Marisha Pessl
He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him… — James Joyce
The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged… — Ralph Ellison

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