Feels Quote by Gail Collins

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which…

— Shirley Jackson

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

— Natalie Merchant

History is ultimately storytelling. I think the more stories you write in life - and I've written a lot of screenplays, a lot of…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

Every work of history is a combination of argument and narrative. The longer I write, the more I emphasize the narrative, the story, and…

— H. W. Brands

I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing. That's the…

— Isabel Allende

As storytellers, you're always somehow creating history.

— Cary Fukunaga

You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.

— Ricky Hatton

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

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

— Wole Soyinka

For better or worse, I seem to gravitate toward writing about something or someone else, then have my own self shove its way into…

— Lucas Mann

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they…

— Doris Lessing