Jami Attenberg Quotes

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

When I write for myself, I think about myself and draw from my own experience.

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.

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it.

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

I write about what I'm going through.

We've always written from personal experiences.

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

I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.

I tend to write from a personal place, and most of the time when I'm writing by myself, it's coming from something I've experienced.

I do not believe that with a fictional character you can force yourself too far away from yourself. There has to be some of you in it.

I love songs that are very autobiographical.

Everyone eventually winds up writing about themselves - the problem is finding the best way to go about it. To write about oneself literally, in the first person, presumes a more interesting personal life and philosophy than most rock lyricists possess. John Lennon was good for one great album based on musical direct address, 'Plastic Ono Band.'

Everything I write is about me.

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary.

It's actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It's a matter of carving away what doesn't fit rather than building up from nothing.

The stories that I want to tell are completely, well, somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.

I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life.

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

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

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

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.