Autobiographical Quotes

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
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All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on. Ira Sachs
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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. James Lee Burke
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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. Janet Fitch
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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
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There certainly is no secret in that there are plenty of people who don't like plenty of my movies. Each one of my films is personal; each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that. With each one of my films, I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film. Jason Reitman
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Because of the wonderfully positive response to 'Life's That Way,' I am considering writing some more autobiographical stuff - maybe another book. I don't know. It doesn't help that I'm lazy. Jim Beaver
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Reviewers try to square the antics of a writer's life with the antics in the fiction. Even satirical verbal play is too often read and admired as autobiographical expression. And thanks to the democratic exposures of the web, it's easier than ever to document private experiences and divulge the most intimate secrets. Joanna Scott
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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. Jodi Picoult
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself. John Berger
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The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life. John Berger
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'Hedwig' is not autobiographical, but what she goes through is clearly a big metaphor. She doesn't want to be what she is, but she comes to an understanding that what happened to her has actually made her whole. John Cameron Mitchell
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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. John Darnielle
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There are autobiographical elements to the albums, and when I write, I always reference my own life as well as other things, so I'm just like any novelist or any fiction writer who tells stories. John Legend
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I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical. Jonathan Tropper
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Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life. Kim Edwards
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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. Kris Kristofferson
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In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature. Lee Hall
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As autobiographical as say the stuff on 'Rumours' was, I don't think we thought of it as such when we were writing it. Lindsey Buckingham
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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. Lisel Mueller
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There's a beautiful, kind of seductive trap in being autobiographical in our writing of songs: We just get stuck in our own syrup, and it's so personal that it almost can be embarrassing to the listener. Lizz Wright
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My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings. Lucian Freud
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There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest. Mark Strand
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Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies. Matthew McGrory
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I've yet to write a stand-up show that isn't autobiographical. Mike Birbiglia
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My first book was called, 'Mountain, Get Out of My Way,' where I did an autobiographical sketch, if you will, looking back at myself and looking back at things in my life, and juxtaposing them against things that are happening in other people's lives and trying to be motivational. Montel Williams
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