George Bernard Shaw Quotes

I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey my own experience as an individual to the world.

You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.

Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition.

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies.

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

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

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

Anyone can write your own life story.

To me, writing is a personal thing; I write super-personal, autobiographically.

I write about personal experiences.

All of my plays are deeply autobiographical. But it's not straight autobiography.

I like autobiographies. I wouldn't mind making one of those.

I think I have had a remarkable and colorful life, so I decided to share it.

Autobiography is the most fascinating thing you can do because you get to touch the human condition. And in the end, what else is there? To me, it's the ultimate affirmation of life, and a miracle of this transient, extremely fragile organism. To celebrate that, I think, is a noble thing to do.

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

I had to detach myself from myself, if that makes any sense, to conjure an authentic first-person voice. In that sense, it was similar to writing a first-person novel. But I was writing about real people, not fictional ones - myself, my family, my friends and boyfriends and ex-husband, and that was extremely tricky.

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.

My name is Daniel, and this is the first volume of my life story, which, hopefully, will be a very long and distinguished one. Who should you read it? Very good question. Maybe because this is your planet, and you have a right to know what's actually happening on it.

We're human, this is our world, and I think we learn that that which is most personal is most general. And so, in a sense, we disappear into this larger world.

I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.