Top 281 Autobiographical Quotes & Sayings

I've yet to write a stand-up show that isn't autobiographical.

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobiographical prose. But I just thought that comics were like virgin territory. There was so much to be done. It excited me. I couldn't draw very well. I could write scripts and storyboard style using stick figures and balloons and captions.

'Tender' is my most strongly autobiographical play.

All forms of landscape are autobiographical.

People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected volume, which came out about few years ago. I didn't think of Winter Journal, for example, as an autobiography, or a memoir. What it is is a literary work, composed of autobiographical fragments, but trying to attain, I hope, the effect of music.

Anything I write is going to be autobiographical and true to some degree.

The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.

I love James Baldwin's autobiographical writing.

I have very rarely written autobiographical stuff. "Greasy Lake" and some other works have some autobiographical elements, as does "Birnam Wood," the one I chose to end [this collection] with. I lived in that house and some of my feelings are expressed in it, but it's not autobiography. It was not me and that didn't happen exactly that way.

'One Minus One' and 'Barcelona, 1975' are more or less autobiographical.

All through my writing life I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

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

I am not an autobiographical writer.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

I can't deny 'Fleabag''s a very personal piece, but it's not autobiographical.

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

Like most filmmakers and writers, there are roots in my own life, but they are stories that I invent. There was a period of time in my life when I made directly autobiographical films where I truly told what happened to me. But, now, I don't make directly autobiographical films anymore. I am more for renouncing that and being in front of history. The large part of my work tells about something I know. It's close.

I'd liked my first record, it was autobiographical and beautiful.

As autobiographical as say the stuff on 'Rumours' was, I don't think we thought of it as such when we were writing it.

All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same time, a novel is never autobiographical even if it describes the life of the author. Literary writing is a completely different medium.

Look, anything any writer writes is going to be on some level autobiographical. Part of the funny/sad thing is that you don't always know how autobiographical you're being.

I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'

You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions.

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

All of my songs are autobiographical.

My books aren't autobiographical.

I wanted to write a semi-autobiographical piece that was uplifting and heart-warming.

I wouldn't say that my songs are autobiographical.

All literature, is, finally autobiographical.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

I think music as we know it, is autobiographical.

Autobiographical fiction is very tricky.

'Hedwig' isn't particularly based on me, but I think that it is autobiographical in terms of emotion.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.

I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it.

“One Minus One’”and “Barcelona, 1975” are more or less autobiographical.

One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard.

I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.

The subject matter is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement, really.

[Oscar Wilde's Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that's why I guess it's semi-autobiographical.

Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction.

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.

I love songs that are very autobiographical.

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.

All art is autobiographical.

I wouldn't say 'Frances Ha' is autobiographical, but it's definitely very personal.

I was actually born a robot, so 'Westworld' is just autobiographical.

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

All art is autobiographical. You can only create what you are.

Many of the poems weave autobiographical elements with fabular or mythic materials.

Even if the experience in my stories is not autobiographical and the actual plot is not autobiographical, the emotion is always somewhat autobiographical. I think there's some of me in every one of the stories.

It always seems to people that I'm avoiding saying, 'It's autobiographical,' but I really do believe that human beings make stories and they make themselves. If I told you the same story twelve years ago, I could have emphasized something different. The importance changes, the meaning of things shifts over time. Also, I think all art is autobiographical. Every endeavor is full of impressions of ourselves.

Just because I write in the first person doesn't mean that all my songs are autobiographical.

None of my movies are autobiographical.

Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.