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.
Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.
Even if the experience in my stories is not autobiographical and the actual plot is not autobiographical, the emotion is always somewhat autobiographical. I think there's some of me in every one of the stories.
I felt at some point that I had nothing to lose, and [laughs] maybe I was wrong. I think, you know, there's always these little autobiographical secrets behind things. I think I was really attacking my earlier self, and this kind of pretentious figure.
But in the act of attempting to imitate I discovered that I had a voice of my own. Whether I liked it or not was another matter. I found that I was my best or that I pleased myself most or came closest to my goals when I was tapped into something autobiographical.
Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
I always sing them as though they are autobiographical, even if they're not, and most of my songs do come from something about me.
I think music as we know it, is autobiographical.
The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism. As a form, the blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically.
I wouldn't say 'Frances Ha' is autobiographical, but it's definitely very personal.
All literature, is, finally autobiographical.
Just because I write in the first person doesn't mean that all my songs are autobiographical.
In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.
All art is autobiographical. You can only create what you are.
There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.
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
Many of the poems weave autobiographical elements with fabular or mythic materials.
All forms of landscape are autobiographical.
