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.
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What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction.
Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.
There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.
All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.
An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.
I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will, but you know what? There's time for that because I'd like to have the whole story.
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