#autobiographical

Beautiful day out there,” I said, perching on the stool and crossing my legs. “It’s autumn, Sunday, great weather, and crowded everywhere you go. Relaxing indoors like this is the best thing you can do on such a nice day. It’s exhausting to get into those crowds. And the air is bad. I mostly do laundry on Sundays—wash the stuff in the morning, hang it out on the roof of my dorm, take it in before the sun goes down, do a good job of ironing it. I don’t mind ironing at all. There’s a special satisfaction in making wrinkled things smooth. And I’m pretty good at it, too. Of course, I was lousy at it at first. I put creases in everything. After a month of practice, though, I knew what I was doing. So Sunday is my day for laundry and ironing. I couldn’t do it today, of course. Too bad: wasted a perfect laundry day. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#literary-fiction #young-adult #beauty

'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#autobiographical #bit #dad #i #i always

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#book #comic #comic book #content #form

All of my songs are autobiographical. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#songs

I learned to read at a young age and I have always read voraciously. It is one of the few things, aside from getting fucked up and getting in trouble, that I have done consistently throughout my entire life. ↗

— James Frey

#age

So, let us be alert - alert in a twofold sense: Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake. (Man's Search for Meaning) ↗

— Viktor E Frankl

#inspirational #inspirational

Silence in the shell of a city, no baby crying, no car honking, no ambulance shrieking, no lovers moaning, no drunks throwing up in the alley, no lights, nothing but wind and rain and snow in its season and rust and a rattling of open doors and carcass smell. It was a possibility like a brain tumor or a scorpion bite. ↗

— Anne Roiphe

#art-and-madness #autobiographical #art

In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the worse you adapt to school, the better you will be able to handle reality when you finally manage to get loose at last from school, if that ever happens. But I guess I have what in the military they call a 'poor attitude,' which means 'shape up or ship out.' I always elected to ship out. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#attitude

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse. ↗

— John Barton

#dramatic #inevitably #lives #poets #pull

The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#combination #comes #felt #i #influences