"Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something……" — Lisel Mueller
"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."
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Lisel Mueller
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6 Quotes by Lisel Mueller
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Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.
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Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public…
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Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.
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I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which…
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When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by…
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More Autobiographical Quotes
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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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