Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it incorporates the culture in which the interactions took place.
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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.
The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.
In a sense, any story that anyone writes is going to be autobiographical - whether it deals directly with the author's experience or not - because it captures what we're obsessed with while working on that particular piece.
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.
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself.
Necessity creates everything in my life.
My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.