Actors Quote by Debra Dean

When I was first approached about doing an autobiography, I said, 'absolutely not.' But when I sat down, memories came pouring out. It wrote…

— Julia Cameron

Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me.…

— W. P. Kinsella

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

— Sidney Poitier

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

— David Leavitt

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though…

— Richard Hell

There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write -…

— Ian Anderson

But it's hard for me to pinpoint where all my characters and dialogue come from - imagination or real life. My memoir, of course,…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

The old handbook on writing is 'Write what you know.' I come from an autobiographical starting place almost all of the time, but it…

— Rodney Crowell

I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will,…

— John Saxon

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

— Paul Auster

I have ventured out and written about real-life experiences that I haven't gone through myself, but I've known people to go through them. In…

— Cassadee Pope

“The principal theme of any autobiography revolves around the brushwork of self-transformation, the freeing of the self from the strictures of self-imposed limitations, fears,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster