Djuna Barnes Quotes

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

I have to have some of my voice because I have my own experiences that I lived through.

I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.

I have always written from a personal place.

Do stuff that is true to your own experiences.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

Biography, too, is liable to the same objection; it should be autobiography. Let us not, as the Germans advise, endeavor to go abroad and vex our bowels that we may be somebody else to explain him. If I am not I, who will be?

Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.

There's nothing particularly unique about my experiences except that they're my experiences.

It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.

Everything I write is about me.

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

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

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private is a life not worth having.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

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

I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there was something inside me that wanted me to tell who I was, and that would have come out even if I didn't want it.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

I came from anonymity, and I will continue to write as a private pursuit.

Anything I write is going to be autobiographical and true to some degree.

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

I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so.

I write about personal experiences.