Different Quote by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

“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

The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture - religions, justice,…

— Antonio Damasio

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Writers use both their blood and their brains to explore the darkest recesses of their pooling self. Writing allows us to harness the whimsy…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“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

The mental state I'm in is completely different, but the act of trying to write is the same. I mean, in all instances you…

— Paul Auster

I think there's a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we're drawn to…

— Mohsin Hamid

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

— David Leavitt

First of all, all writing includes some part of the self. The relationship of the self and the other exists in writing, whether autobiographical…

— Nawal El Saadawi

All writers are autobiographical to a degree and writing about the nature of their inner life. My inner life has always been a struggle…

— Francis Levy

Over the years, I had something in principle against autobiographical writing altogether because memory plays tricks on us, and we also tend to reinvent…

— Gunter Grass

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