"Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even……" — Nick Flynn

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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
• All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster
• The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life. — John Berger
• A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'… — John Berger
• I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only… — Maya Angelou
• I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a… — Shirley Jackson
• It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard'… — Gloria Swanson
• If my choice is to, I don’t know, be with a lot of men, or if I enjoy a really… — Lana Del Rey
• All forms of landscape are autobiographical, — Charles Wright
• All art is autobiographical. — Federico Fellini
• The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual… — Will Oldham
• The most purely autobiographical ­fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more auto­biographical story than 'The Meta­morphosis'. — Jonathan Franzen

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