Quotes About Autobiographical

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.

All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.

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.

I think there might be some pressure released while I'm doing autobiographical work, but afterwards everything remains the same.

I think a lot of 'Edward Scissorhands' was about the suburban world that Burton grew up in feeling like an outcast. I feel like there's no way it's not at least a little autobiographical from that standpoint. I always liked that.

Because what I am also suddenly know thinking about is that it could be an absolutely autobiographical novel that would not start until I was alone, obviously.

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.

It's true that all my novels have been versions of myself to some degree.

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

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

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

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

You're always trying to make each record more autobiographical than the last one.

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

I'd never done any Beckett before 'Krapp,' and I haven't done any of his other plays since. I've always felt that 'Krapp' is an autobiographical piece.

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

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

the left brain is logical, linguistic, and literal, the right brain is emotional, nonverbal, experiential, and autobiographical

be that excessive stress and hormonal secretion during a trauma directly impair the functioning of parts of the brain necessary for autobiographical memories to be stored. After the trauma, recollection of those details encoded in only nonverbal form will likely evoke distressful emotions that can be deeply disturbing.

Readers, continued Miss Winter, are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs time to rot away before it can be used to nourish a work of fiction. It must be allowed to decay. That's why I couldn't have journalists and biographers rummaging around in my past, retrieving bits and pieces of it, preserving it in their words. To write my books, I needed my past left in peace, for time to do its work.

Readers,' continued Miss Winter, 'are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs time to rot away before it can be used to nourish a work of fiction. It must be allowed to decay.

Of course, if I write a first-person novel about a woman writer, I am inviting every book reviewer to apply the autobiographical label -- to conclude that I am writing about myself. But one must never not write a certain kind of novel out of fear of what the reaction to it will be.