Autobiographical Quote by Natalie Merchant

“Show me you care about our common tongue. Bring to your [writing] passion, deeply informed by knowledge of your subject. Stay me, not with…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“We do need to bring to our writing, over and over again, all the abundance we possess. To be able, to be ready, to…

— Eudora Welty

“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

Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it…

— Antonio Damasio

“is a little remarkable, that—though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends—an autobiographical impulse…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

— Anonymous

Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have…

— Nick Flynn

“Attempting to express a person’s objective reality and subjective state of mind with the written word is an endless task because writing alters our…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

My books aren't autobiographical.

— Emily Giffin

It's actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It's a matter of carving away what doesn't fit rather than building…

— Craig Thompson

I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this is exactly…

— Cecily von Ziegesar

I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.

— Jonathan Tropper