Autobiographical Quotes

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.

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

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

I love songs that are very 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.

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.

True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

All of my songs are autobiographical.

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.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.

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

The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.

Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.

I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.

'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.

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.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical. But it's what everyone wants - to get everyone's attention, to have your music make a living for you, to be validated in that way.

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

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.

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

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

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.

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

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.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.