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There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.
— Donald Barthelme
I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.
— Stephen Daldry
All of my songs are autobiographical.
— Taylor Swift
In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.
— Dario Argento
I think any writer keeps going back to some basic theme. Sometimes it's autobiographical. I guess it usually is.
— Joe Haldeman
I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.
— Natalie Merchant
She wasn't being methodological. She was being autobiographical.
— Stephen L. Carter
I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.
— Bret Easton Ellis
One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.
— Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
So there was fun and magic in my relationship with Toni, even if the prevailing mood when we trained was stony and severe.
— Rafael Nadal
It'd be tricky to read into my lyrics - some are autobiographical, but sometimes I just like the sound of words.
— Max Tundra
I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A lot of my downtime is devoted to that.
— Alexis Dziena
I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
— Maya Angelou
It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.
— James Taylor
Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.
— Frederick Buechner
I think music as we know it, is autobiographical.
— Julius Hemphill
Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
— John Barton
I always sing them as though they are autobiographical, even if they're not, and most of my songs do come from something about me.
— Ronee Blakley
The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.
— John Berger
First novels were always at least somewhat autobiographical,
— Meg Wolitzer
My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.
— Harvey Pekar
I have never pondered over questions that are not questions.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
What's happening in Russia is devoid of autobiographical interest for me. Maybe it's egocentric. Whatever it is, feel free to use it.
— Joseph Brodsky
Just because I write in the first person doesn't mean that all my songs are autobiographical.
— Thalia Zedek
All art is autobiographical.
— Federico Fellini
I would like to do something autobiographical, set to music. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I'm going to try.
— Phoebe Snow
'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.
— Gary Oldman
Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.
— Paul Schrader
In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
Should he one day share it and be asked how autobiographical it was, he would say, "It's not my life, but it's me.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Autobiographical memory: Memory across the lifespan for both specific events and self-related information.
— Alan Baddeley
One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard.
— Tom Paulin
Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It's all me.
— Janet Jackson
I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
— P.J. Harvey
The film was semi-autobiographical. Director Mahesh Bhatt based it on his relationship with actress Parveen Babi.
— Anupama Chopra
All art is autobiographical - if it's not, it's not going to quicken on-stage, and it's not going to come alive.
— Constantin Stanislavski
None of my movies are autobiographical.
— Susanne Bier
Of course, there were other sorts of literature theoretical, self-referencial, lachrymosely autobiographical
but they were just dry wanks. — Julian Barnes
Each one of my films is personal; each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that.
— Jason Reitman
I've yet to write a stand-up show that isn't autobiographical.
— Mike Birbiglia
The stories that I want to tell are completely, well, somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.
— Nicole Holofcener
It's the truth, though rarely admitted, that every autobiographical work has a touch of fiction and every fiction has a touch of autobiography.
— Santosh Kumar Das
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
— David Leavitt
All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
— Federico Fellini
My education was interrupted only by my schooling.
— Winston S. Churchill
Autobiographical Interview, ed. James Conant and
— Thomas S. Kuhn
All forms of landscape are autobiographical,
— Charles Wright
I am not an autobiographical writer.
— Yann Martel
I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
— Ingmar Bergman
All art is autobiographical. You can only create what you are.
— Dale Carnegie
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
— William S. Burroughs
Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.
— Alison Bechdel
I love songs that are very autobiographical.
— Alanis Morissette
I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.
— Jonathan Tropper
Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
— Terry McMillan
All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
— James Joyce
