Raphael Bob-Waksberg 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.

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.

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

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.

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.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

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.

I realized I couldn't have one foot in the fiction world and one foot in the nonfiction world, which is why 'Here I Go Again' is so not me. I didn't graduate from high school in the '90s, I never listened to metal music, and I don't time travel.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

I write about what I'm going through.

We've always written from personal experiences.

Long ago, when I was in higher secondary school in Delhi, I read an essay by George Orwell in which he said there was a voice in his head that put into words everything he was seeing. I realised I did that, too, or maybe I started doing it in imitation.

I've never been a confessional writer.

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

However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

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

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.

Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction.

Every character a writer creates has some of themselves in it somewhere.