Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I think all writing is necessarily autobiographical to a greater or lesser extent, and the less it tries to be confessional, the more likely it is that you're somehow sneaking the things you need to say in there.

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'

Look, anything any writer writes is going to be on some level autobiographical. Part of the funny/sad thing is that you don't always know how autobiographical you're being.

I've never been a confessional writer.

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

All writers write about themselves, just as the old storytellers chose to tell stories that spoke to and about themselves. They call it the world, but it is themselves they portray. The world of which they write is like a mirror that reflects the inside of their hearts, often more truly than they know.

All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the personages. In fact, I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person singular.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

Everything I write is about me.

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes some autobiographical details intended to reveal how each piece came to be, what it represents, and how it has formed, or been informed by, my philosophy of writing.

The first person is a tradition I relate to and that I use; historically, it's been the voice I work in. But the hair on the back of my neck stands up when I'm referred to as a 'confessional' writer.

All the nice things about Suzanne are me. All the things that aren't nice, that was just the writing.

I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that I realise I've been writing about myself again.

All my characters are me, in one way or another.

A writer appears in everything that he does. That said, I felt like writing characters with my own name, in fact, provided me with something of a smoke screen.

When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.

If you want to know anything about me, read my books - it's all there.

You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections.

My books are, in a way, a record of my life - that part of it that came to flower and fruit in my mind.

I was portraying the family through my eyes. Everything that's happened in the strip has happened to me.

It's true that all my novels have been versions of myself to some degree.

I wanted to be as invisible as possible as an artist. I wanted to differentiate between myself and who I'm writing about.