"It is so common to write autobiographical fiction……" — David Leavitt
"It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised."
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11 Quotes by David Leavitt
David Leavitt has 11 quotes on this site.
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Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at…
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I could hear the knock and whistle of the water pipes, the purr of the calico cat. And at that…
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When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.
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We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands.…
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Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I…
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Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.
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In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as…
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Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what…
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I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.
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It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling…
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More Autobiographical Quotes
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one of 96 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself…
— Paul Auster
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All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
— Paul Auster
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The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.
— John Berger
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
— John Berger
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I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only…
— Maya Angelou
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I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a…
— Shirley Jackson
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It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard'…
— Gloria Swanson
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If my choice is to, I don’t know, be with a lot of men, or if I enjoy a really…
— Lana Del Rey
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All forms of landscape are autobiographical,
— Charles Wright
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All art is autobiographical.
— Federico Fellini
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The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual…
— Will Oldham
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The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than 'The Metamorphosis'.
— Jonathan Franzen
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