All Quotes By Tag: Autobiography

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

“We live in a world when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.”

“We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of symbols including those supplied by nature and religion, which touch upon the mystical and spiritual aspects of life. Symbols inspire enduring hope by formulating idealist expectations.”

“The features of character are carved out of adversity.”

“Mistakes? That’s why they put erasers on pencils.”

“If you haven’t cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your’re writing fiction.”

“A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.”

“Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the death of beauty, I remember sitting on the end of my bed, collecting these pills and capsules together and wondering why, why when I felt I had so much to offer, so much love, such outpourings of love and energy to spend on the world, I was incapable of being offered love, giving it or summoning the energy with which I knew I could transform myself and everything around me.”

“[His research into biblical criticism had lead him to the conclusion that most of what was contained in traditional religion simply wasn’t true]Was I to lie in order to teach the truth? …Was I to repeat these words? It was impossible. It was certain they would stick in my throat. On these grounds the separation was decided by me.”

“Never Judge Another Person’s Journey!”

“It was only after two years’ work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn’t realise I knew that I said, ‘I’m a writer now.’ The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That’s really what writing is—an intense form of thought.”

“Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.”