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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
Tags: You About Life
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There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.


Donald Barthelme
Tags: Here Fact Few
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Most fiction comes from your experience.


Susan Minot
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All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.


Paul Auster
Tags: Life Had Through
In 'Out of the Dark,' I'm talking about my own life. I'm not talking as a character or speaking as a character. I was not as free as when I write fiction.
Nikki Grimes
Tags: About Out Life
If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.
Frederik Pohl
Tags: Science You Like
Part of the reason I wanted to write a novel was that in fiction I could do something that's difficult to do in real life, which is to dwell on the stark details of the experience without really needing to create that narrative of redemption.
Christina Baker Kline
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
Tags: Think Had I Think
A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
Raymond Carver
In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory. It's impossible to separate the two ingredients.
Rohinton Mistry
'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.
Paul Schrader
Tags: Own Did My Own
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You need to write on your own and produce your own life.


Courtney Love
Tags: You Life Your
I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.
Reeve Carney
The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was essential to stay in the game. Publishing is a vocation in which the work is its own reward, an insufficient goal for today's conglomerates.
Jason Epstein
Tags: Work Never Which
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.


Ursula K. Le Guin
I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.
Robert Sheckley
When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.
Jesse Harris
Tags: Just Life Which
I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends.
Charles Frazier
Tags: You Out Very
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I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.


Michael Morpurgo
Tags: Up Things Make
I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later.
David A. Adler