Edward Albee Quotes

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

I don't worry about being exposed. When I'm writing about myself I think about myself as a character. There is a ton of stuff going on in my life that I don't write about. If I need to write that stuff down, I write about myself in my diary.

Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.

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

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

Listen to what people say about themselves; they will tell you everything you need to know.

I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of my character, and of what kind of a mortal I am, by the one, would give you a better relish for the other: As you proceed further with me, the slight acquaintance which is now beginning betwixt us, will grow into familiarity; and that, unless one of us is in fault, will terminate in friendship.

I'm just not that comfortable writing so much about myself.

I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

I don't write about my life in my column.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

Most of the songs I write are just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake.

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

I only write about what I do, what happens to me.

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.