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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Everything that I do is very autobiographical. I'm trying to be as much of an open book as possible and give the audience every single piece of me.
Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.
Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don't know that I'm getting better, but I'm certainly running out of time.
I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.
I think any writer keeps going back to some basic theme. Sometimes it's autobiographical. I guess it usually is.
In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.
The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math.
You can't hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader - in protecting yourself - that you made it up.
Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.
There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.
The materials of true poetry are always humble, absolutely idiosyncratic, the autobiographical tatters that, in gifted hands, are made into the memoir that fits us all.
All art is autobiographical - if it's not, it's not going to quicken on-stage, and it's not going to come alive.
I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.
I had always been wary of doing any autobiographical movies, truly feeling at home with fiction.
People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination.
Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.
All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.
Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.
All my works over the years have been autobiographical in the sense they reflect some part of my life, although I have fictionalised them to an extent.
I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.
Being an actress, it's hard to publish things without people thinking everything is autobiographical.
'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
Everything is personal - the poems and the crime novels. I have never been involved in any murders, but there are strong autobiographical elements in each.
What's happening in Russia is devoid of autobiographical interest for me. Maybe it's egocentric. Whatever it is, feel free to use it.
In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.
The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than "The Metamorphosis".
Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.
I think there might be some pressure released while I'm doing autobiographical work, but afterwards everything remains the same.
I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical.
There is no doubt that this film is autobiographical, but at the same time it also tries to portray an ordinary couple in a language that everyone can understand.
In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.
A first building is like a first novel, it is always autobiographical.
I am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a sleeping beauty, for example.
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 up from nothing.
For years, I've written narrators who aren't gender-identified. When I do autobiographical stuff, that's different, obviously. But I've always tried to keep my songs as potentially not a man's thing.
I'm certainly no Bruce Springsteen in terms of being a storyteller, but I'm trying to get a better handle on it and not always go after it from an autobiographical standpoint.
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.
I think all writing is necessarily autobiographical to a greater or lesser extent, and the less it tries to be confessional, the more likely it is that you're somehow sneaking the things you need to say in there.
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.
All of my surroundings influence my songwriting. It's autobiographical, although I leave enough space so it's relatable.
I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.
It'd be tricky to read into my lyrics - some are autobiographical, but sometimes I just like the sound of words.
The most autobiographical thing I've ever written is my second novel, called 'An Ocean in Iowa.' That is pretty close to my childhood.
I believe in the autobiographical concept only to the degree that I am able to put onto film all that's passing through my head at the moment of shooting.
Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.
'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.
In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.
People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination
My goal is, no matter what genre or story, I'll find a personal angle. It doesn't have to be autobiographical, or specifically Asian-American. It has to explore a burning question that I have.
The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.
I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
You're always trying to make each record more autobiographical than the last one.
One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.
A lot of first novels are coming-of-age stories. A lot are autobiographical.
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.
It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book ever happened to me as a child. I didn't have an eventful childhood.
