Julien Baker Quotes

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

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

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

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

I write about my life.

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

Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.

Anyone can write your own life story.

When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

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

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

I don't think I necessarily am prepared to write about anybody else's life but mine.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

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

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

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.

I write about true-life type things.

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.

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

I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin...' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

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.

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.