Autobiography Quote by Jill Ker Conway Download Open image “Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers?” — Jill Ker Conway ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Autobiography Books Fiction Form Modern Reader
I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Obviously, in marketing, the best tool is to show the autobiography in fiction. It's inevitable how that happens, but it's generic. Say I've written… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.' — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I had the total attention of both my parents, and was secure in the knowledge of being loved ... My memories of falling asleep… — Jill Ker Conway Copy Share Image
I learned that time manages the most painful partings for us. One has only to set the date, buy the ticket, and let the… — Jill Ker Conway Copy Share Image
“would place beside her in my mind’s eye the young competent woman, proud, courageous, and generous, I’d known as a child. I was living… — Jill Ker Conway Copy Share Image
“An adult life...is a slowly emerging design, with shifting components, occasional dramatic disruptions, and fresh creative arrangements.” — Jill Ker Conway Copy Share Image
William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in acquiring knowledge.… — Jill Ker Conway Copy Share Image
“Her ideas were expressions of her inability to accept her own personal tragedy and her quest for some certainty on which she could rest… — Jill Ker Conway Copy Share Image
Some friendships in life sustain themselves only at a particular life stage, products of some mutual developmental problem to be resolved together, or of… — Jill Ker Conway Copy Share Image
You never know what you'll want to write until it starts writing itself in your head. — Jill Ker Conway Copy Share Image
I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography. — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
“Someday, I want to write an unauthorized autobiography of myself.” — David McMullen-Sullivan Copy Share Image
“As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir… — Craig Briggs Copy Share Image
Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about in my… — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer. — Linda Simon Copy Share Image
I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must… — Nellie Melba Copy Share Image
