A story about my life should not be particularly interesting, but it is: it’s just about me and some kids who didn’t know how to talk to each other. It’s personal but not autobiographical.
Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don’t know that I’m getting better, but I’m certainly running out of time.
‘Nil By Mouth’ was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that’s not my dad.
Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it’s a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.
I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
I am not an autobiographical writer.
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.
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.
Everything is personal – the poems and the crime novels. I have never been involved in any murders, but there are strong autobiographical elements in each.
All of the narration in ‘Smile’ is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.
‘Normal’ is not clinical, it’s not autobiographical, and I don’t claim to be objective. It’s strictly my perceptions and thoughts about the people that I met and the stories that I heard. It was never meant to be an academic work.
In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood – I made it into a mystery story.
A lot of first novels are coming-of-age stories. A lot are autobiographical.
I wouldn’t say ‘Frances Ha’ is autobiographical, but it’s definitely very personal.
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.
I’m not interested in writing overtly autobiographical songs. I would rather explore interesting stories. I like the idea of the songs being evocative and distinctive, so I have in my mind the atmosphere that a film could evoke. I like to think of them existing in their own little world.
‘Dreamsongs’ allows me to show the scope of my writing – with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes some autobiographical details intended to reveal how each piece came to be, what it represents, and how it has formed, or been informed by, my philosophy of writing.
In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
I think a lot of ‘Edward Scissorhands’ was about the suburban world that Burton grew up in feeling like an outcast. I feel like there’s no way it’s not at least a little autobiographical from that standpoint. I always liked that.
I don’t cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman’s autobiographical novel, ‘Say Her Name.’
I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.
I sat down to try to write ‘Edinburgh,’ an autobiographical novel, and that took five years to write and two years to sell.
I’m not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
There’s a beautiful, kind of seductive trap in being autobiographical in our writing of songs: We just get stuck in our own syrup, and it’s so personal that it almost can be embarrassing to the listener.
‘Hedwig’ isn’t particularly based on me, but I think that it is autobiographical in terms of emotion.
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.
All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I’m no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, ‘Is this an autobiographical story?’
I can’t remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you’re writing.
All of my songs are autobiographical.
I think novels are profoundly autobiographical. If writers deny that, they are lying. Or if it’s really true, then I think it’s a mistake.
Everything that I do is very autobiographical. I’m trying to be as much of an open book as possible and give the audience every single piece of me.
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