Autobiographical Quotes

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

Art, Pearl, Oyster

I love songs that are very autobiographical.
Alanis Morissette

All of my songs are autobiographical.
Taylor Swift

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.
Jessica Savitch

Work, Age, Time

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.
Janet Jackson

Life, Feeling, Acting

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

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
Jeanne Moreau

True, Talent, Fiction

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

There certainly is no secret in that there are plenty of people who don't like plenty of my movies. Each one of my films is personal; each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that. With each one of my films, I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film.
Jason Reitman

Movies, Try, 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.
James Taylor

Music, Real, Person

I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.
Jodi Picoult

Anyone, Books, Childhood

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.
Josh Radnor

Life, Moment, Write

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.
Jeffrey Eugenides

Life, Real, Confused

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.
Jeffrey Eugenides

Work, False, Resisting

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

Soul, Characters, Piece

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

Life, Work, Ask

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

Work, Book, Write

I am not an autobiographical writer.
Yann Martel

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

Tomorrow, Personal, Film

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

Write, Lives, Dramatic

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

Far, Either, Written

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.
Alice Munro

Through, Learned, Personal

I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
P. J. Harvey

Human, Writer, Emotion

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.
Stephen Daldry

Life, Tell, Idea

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.
Kazuo Ishiguro

Writing, Through, Actually

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.
Alison Bechdel

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

Yourself, Writing, Point

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.
Harold Brodkey

True, Long, Before

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.
Tracy Chapman

Life, Together, Might

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.
Sophie Marceau

Time, Doubt, Understand

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