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It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.


David Leavitt

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PRIMO GOFFI All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.
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BECKY JOHNSON I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is sti...
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JOHN LEGEND It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN thinly disguised propaganda urging women to be decorative, toe the line and marry (rich).
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NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN It's not autobiographical, ... It is in the sense that anything you write in first person to some ex...
PAUL CURTIS Each day he made attempts … but produced nothing but quotations, thinly or well disguised, of his ...
IAN MCEWAN I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so...
PHILIP ROTH A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience.
JOYCE RACHELLE A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, re...
PATRICK CARMAN Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fear...
VARLEY O'CONNOR I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.
JONATHAN TROPPER It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your ...
RENATA ADLER It is common to follow the path of others; it is courageous to create your own.
VIKRANT PARSAI It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical ver...
JOHN BARTON The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is...
DREW BREES It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply...
RENATA ADLER There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to d...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
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IAN MCKELLEN I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
APURVA GAGLANI It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr...
GARY F EVANS... I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what...
BRANDON SANDERSON There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication. Try the expe...
JOHN DEWEY See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t...
CRISTIANO RONALDO The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
A. J. LIEBLING You must make time for that which matters, for that which defines you: your passion, your progress, ...
V.E. SCHWAB I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never...
ISABEL ALLENDE I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it hap...
MAYA ANGELOU There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
CASSANDRA CLARE Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discoverin...
IAN MCKELLEN Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
CARL JUNG Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG [I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above...
EDWARD ABBEY 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical i...
RAYMOND CARVER If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored i...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY This distinction between form and experience is not pedantic, but fundamental: a form can express th...
PAUL SCHRADER I don't want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges.
BRIAN A. MCBRIDE It is so common amongst the common people of an ordinary mind to find own selfish desire as dream an...
ANUJ SOMANY I can't imagine South Florida without Leavitt. South Florida wouldn't be the same. Everybody else ca...
ANDRE HALL Let your actions speak LOVE. No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
WALLY LAMB Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our...
BERTRAND RUSSELL You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO I needed to say something. Something romantic! Something to sweep her off her feet.
"You're lik...
BRANDON SANDERSON Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean som...
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD ...the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it ...
JOHN GEDDES What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the sele...
BERGEN EVENS Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the sele...
BERGEN EVANS If you do write down your passwords, don't make it obvious which password corresponds to which a...
BARTON GELLMAN There are times when I myself no longer know whether I said and did the things I report or whether I...
HENRY MILLER Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of...
CHARLIE PARKER Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your...
EMILY CARR The one thing over which you have absolute control is your own thoughts. It is this that puts you in...
PAUL G. THOMAS The one thing over which you have absolute control is your own thoughts. It is this that puts you ...
PAUL G. THOMAS If you do not have the strength to forgive,
then compel themselves and continue in that, do not...
SANEL ALIć His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individu...
P.D. JAMES Take your own route, not the route everyone is using or taking. Create your own way; there is always...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR No, it wasn't just that one game. I love the coaches, coach Leavitt, he's so positive and energetic....
JEFF IDE Being in love is the only transcendent experience.
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN I sat down to try to write 'Edinburgh,' an autobiographical novel, and that took five years ...
ALEXANDER CHEE No, Margaret Atwood writes literature, whereas I write fiction. I'm from the American Midwest, so li...
STELLA ATRIUM I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa...
ERIK GRIFFIN I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.
ALEX FLINN Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switchi...
KAREN TRAVISS The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was ...
JASON EPSTEIN I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories...
STEPHEN DALDRY I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human...
AUGUST WILSON I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common exper...
EVELYN WAUGH The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own exper...
SUSAN SONTAG Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in ...
EMILY CARR Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS it's always important to do what you want, Life is too short to live with Regrets.
SHELLI THOMPSON I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER

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DAVID CASSIDY I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.'
DAVID CASSIDY I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.
DAVID CASSIDY I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this worl...
DAVID CASSIDY You cannot make a teenage idol.
DAVID CASSIDY It's a difficult journey when you're going through a divorce, is it not, for anyone?
DAVID CASSIDY Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.
DAVID CASSIDY I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and perfo...
DAVID CASSIDY If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was i...
DAVID CASSIDY I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on ...
DAVID CASSIDY I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and ...
DAVID CASSIDY I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat und...
DAVID CASSIDY I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
DAVID CASSIDY All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger...
DAVID BOWIE I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.
DAVID CASSIDY We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be.
DAVID CASSIDY All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and ...
DAVID CASSIDY Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'
DAVID CASSIDY