Change Quote by Kilroy J. Oldster

Despite the natural belittling of one's self, the doubts, the insecurities, we have to wake up to the realisation that we all write our…

— Yossi Ghinsberg

“Autobiographical writing acts as a timeless testament to each person’s epic record of adventure, heartache, road to perdition, and achievement of a spiritual life…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.

— Patricia Hampl

The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and people out…

— Diablo Cody

“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

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

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

Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.

— Lisel Mueller

One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.

— Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

In a novel there's not much autobiography. There are characters in transit. Naturally, I can project something of my experiences onto the characters, but…

— Dacia Maraini

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…

— Josh Radnor

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

— Fay Weldon