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“It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.”

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Author:Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are.”

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Author:Robert Penn Warren

“Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.”

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Author:Lisel Mueller

“I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later.”

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Author:Jenni Rivera

“Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.”

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Author:Jane Smiley

“The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level.”

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Author:David Brooks

“Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies.”

People Writing Buried Autobiography

Author:Elia Kazan

“Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

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Book:Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile

Source: Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile

“There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another novel.”

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Book:John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose

Source: John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose

“To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx.”

Writing Would Be Autobiography

Book:Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover

Source: Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover

“When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.”

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Author:Alessandra Stanley

“Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good fortune; and its words mighty by the genius of a few of its children: but its art, only by the general gifts and common sympathies of the race.”

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Author:John Ruskin