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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

Topics: Ask Autobiographical Course Directly Informed Life My Life People Things Think Work Your I Think

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Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it incorporates the culture in which the interactions took place.

~Antonio Damasio

Topics: About Autobiographical Culture Individual Interactions Just Necessity Others Place Self Took Which

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When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.

~Ben Marcus

Topics: Anything Autobiographical Come Emotional Emotional Level Fear Had Level Realise Started Very Writing

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I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: About Anything Autobiographical Been Books Comic Device Family Hang Instinct Interest Just Kind Largely Life Life Story Me My Life Myself Observations Really Story Tell Use Which World Writing You

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In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: About Autobiographical Childhood Early Little Made Mystery Novel Seventies Started Story Writing

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I love James Baldwin's autobiographical writing.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: Autobiographical James Love Writing I Love

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I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this is exactly what happened to me!' I just use little snippets of things as a starting point!

~Cecily Von Ziegesar

Topics: Always Any Autobiographical Because Books Choose Exactly Exactly What Happened Just Little Me Oh Point Say Saying Scene Starting Starting Point Things Use

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'One Minus One' and 'Barcelona, 1975' are more or less autobiographical.

~Colm Toibin

Topics: Autobiographical Barcelona Less Minus More More Or Less

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It's actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It's a matter of carving away what doesn't fit rather than building up from nothing.

~Craig Thompson

Topics: Actually Autobiographical Away Building Carving Easier Fit Matter Nothing Rather Stories Story Than Up

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After 'Blankets,' I was sick of drawing myself and doing this autobiographical, mundane, Midwestern sort of comics. I wanted to create something bigger than myself and outside myself.

~Craig Thompson

Topics: After Autobiographical Bigger Blankets Comics Create Doing Drawing Midwestern Mundane Myself Outside Sick Something Sort Than Wanted

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