Autobiography Quote by Sloane Crosley

“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

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which…

— Shirley Jackson

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

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

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

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

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

All of my plays are deeply autobiographical. But it's not straight autobiography.

— Stephen Karam

I am not an autobiographical writer.

— Yann Martel

My books aren't autobiographical.

— Emily Giffin

What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we take into…

— Francis Spufford

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

— Natalie Merchant