Quotes About Autobiographical

Norman Maclean called A River Runs Through It fiction, and the word "fiction" appeared in the book's front matter. A River Runs Through It was autobiographical fact in nearly all aspects but one. For private reasons, the author had shifted the site of his brother's murder and, being Norman Maclean, considered that change and others quite enough fabrication to disqualify the text as nonfiction.

Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

First novels were always at least somewhat autobiographical,

Está lección autobiográfica no lo es en realidad: sea como sea, no tengo otra salida. Sino escribo lo que he visto sufriría igual; y quizás un poco más. Un poco solamente, insisto en esto. La escritura no alivia apenas. Describe, delimita. Introduce una sombra de coherencia,una idea de realismo. Uno sigue chapoteando en una niebla sangrienta, pero hay algunos puntos de referencia. El caos se queda a unos pocos metros. Pobre éxito, en realidad.

no biblical interpretation is ever developed in a social or cultural vacuum. Most interpretations are autobiographical, where we ascertain the meaning of the text through the telling of our own stories, projecting onto the Bible how we define and interpret the biblical story in light of our own life experiences.

When I was twenty-five, I went on exactly four dates with a much older guy whom I'll call Peter Parker. I'm calling him Peter Parker because the actual guy's name was also alliterative, and because, well, it's my book and I'll name a guy I dated after Spider-Man's alter ego if I want to.

What was really happening was that Brian's whole approach to romance was becoming more and more personalized, more honest in a distinctly autobiographical way.

Young writers, they're almost always autobiographical, even when they don't mean to be.

No tengo inconveniente en escribir sobre mí mismo. Diría que es casi lo único que hago.

narrative that derives from James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway. The autobiographical "Camera Eye" sections are in the style of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist, and the "Newsreel" sections quoting

According to Damasio, the core self is the foundation of consciousness, and the autobiographical self is its glory