Gunter Grass

Over the years, I had something in principle against autobiographical writing altogether because memory plays tricks on us, and we also tend to reinvent ourselves. But there comes an age when one begins to observe life, and there are things that need time to mature, also in terms of literary form.

German Author

John Banville

All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same time, a novel is never autobiographical even if it describes the life of the author. Literary writing is a completely different medium.

Irish Novelist

Cindy Sherman

People assume that a self-portrait is narcissistic and you're trying to reveal something about yourself: fantasies or autobiographical information. In fact, none of my work is about me or my private life.

American Photographer

John Legend

There are autobiographical elements to the albums, and when I write, I always reference my own life as well as other things, so I'm just like any novelist or any fiction writer who tells stories.

American Musician

Jeffrey Eugenides

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.

American Novelist

Jim Crace

I don't have a constituency, and I'm not autobiographical in any way. I write these deeply moral books in a country which would prefer irony to anything with a moral tone.

English Writer

Janet Jackson

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.

John Berger

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

English Artist

Kim Edwards

Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.

American Author

Lisa Joy

I was actually born a robot, so 'Westworld' is just autobiographical.

American Director

Autobiographical works are written from the author's perspective, using 'I' or 'me'.

First-Person Narration

An autobiographical account reflects the writer's personal views and biases.

Subjectivity Awareness

People in autobiographical books are real, though names may be changed for privacy.

Real-Life Characters

Autobiographical content often conveys the author's emotions and internal struggles.

Personal Emotions

Each autobiographical story is told with the author's unique voice and style.

Unique Voice

Authors may use creative ways to present facts in autobiographical films or books.

Creative License

 which allows sort of different connections to take place. It's really awesome, actually. Manoush Totally awesome, right? So this is my brain in an fMRI, and I learned that in the default mode is when we connect disparate ideas, we solve some of our most nagging problems, and we do something called "autobiographical planning."

How Boredom Can Lead to...

 But I wanted people to actually feel my work from their gut, because I was painting it from my gut. If they wanted beauty, I said, this is the beauty I'm willing to give you. It's politicized. Of course, none of them liked it. My works also turned autobiographical.

My 5 lives as an artist...

 was to write about myself. Instead, I began to write about people other than me and things that never really happened. And thus began my life-long passion for writing fiction. So from the very beginning, fiction for me was less of an autobiographical manifestation

The politics of fiction...

 Only the wealth of our minds is, not the very fact that we have a self that we can refer to our own existence, and that we have any sense of person. Now there are three levels of self to consider -- the proto, the core and the autobiographical.

The quest to understand...

 Bulgakov’s experiences with censorship and artistic frustration lend an autobiographical air to the second part of the novel, when we are finally introduced to its namesake. "The Master" is a nameless author who’s worked for years on a novel

Why should you read “The...

 This makes sense since each individual digit tells us the number of times a specific digit occurs within the total. So the digits in our ten-digit autobiographical number must add up to ten. This tells us another important thing –

Can you solve the...

 that triggered his fallout with many fellow writers and philosophers. Despite the controversy, Camus began work on his most lengthy and personal novel an autobiographical work entitled "The First Man."

Is life meaningless? And...

 It's what I like to call an autobiographical occasion in which we are called on to revisit, rewrite and retell our life story, adding a new chapter for what we learned during the lifequake.

The Secret to Mastering...

 which basically obliterated his ability to lay down new autobiographical memories. He lost his hippocampus, which is a brain region very important for this function.

Anil Seth: How your...

 I want to say -- just a little autobiographical moment -- that I actually am married to a wife,