All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction. - P. D. James

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No, I’m not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money.

P. D. James

All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.

Autobiographical, Autobiography, Courses, Fiction

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I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.

Choose, Create, Disorder, Order, Thinking, Wish

to look back on one's life is to experience the capriciousness of memory. . . . the past is not static. It can be relived only in memory, and memory is a device for forgetting as well as remembering. It, too, is not immutable. It rediscovers, reinvents, reorganizes. Like a passage of prose it can be revised and repunctuated. To that extent, every autobiography is a work of fiction and every work of fiction an autobiography.

Looks, Memories, Passage, Past, Prose, Rediscovers

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

English, Fall, Life, Memories, Memory, Occur

Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

Needs, Sell, Think, Thinking, Write, Writing

I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.

Beneath, Facts, Skin, Skins, Skull, Skulls

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Clinton Scollard

In the under-wood and the over-wood there is murmur and trill this day, For every bird is in lyric mood, And the wind will have its way.

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Michael Dell

I had to give it a full go and see what happened.

Full, Give, Giving, Happened, See

Neil Young

I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

Arrange, Clubs, Different, Song

Dewitt Jones

F8 And Be There! For years, this was the cry of the photojournalist. It meant that 90% of a great photo was being in the right place at the right time. True, it was simplistic, but in the Age of Photoshop, this maxim is too often forgotten. No matter how much you play with the bits and bytes, the best images always start out with a great vision, clearly and cleanly seen.

Bits, Bytes, Photography, Photojournalist, Play, Years

Paul Ryan