#biographical

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

What is 'camp'? A much misunderstood word, everyone has their own feel for it. Here is mine: Camp is not in rugby football. Camp is not in the Old Testament. Camp is not in St. Paul. Camp is not in Latin lessons, though it might be in Greek. Camp loves colour. Camp loves light. Camp takes pleasure in the surface of things. Camp loves paint as much as it loves paintings. Camp prefers style to the stylish. Camp is pale. Camp is unhealthy. Camp is not English, damn it. But … Camp is not kitsch. Camp is not drag. Camp is not nearly so superficial as it would have you believe. Camp casts out all fear. Camp is strong. Camp is healthy. And, let’s face it … Camp is queer. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#humour #queer #love

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

— John Barton

#dramatic #inevitably #lives #poets #pull

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

— Lucian Freud

#autobiographical #myself #purely #surroundings #work

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised. ↗

— David Leavitt

#common #disguised #experience #fiction #own

There is no doubt that this film is autobiographical, but at the same time it also tries to portray an ordinary couple in a language that everyone can understand. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

#autobiographical #couple #doubt #everyone #film

I am not an autobiographical writer. ↗

— Yann Martel

#autobiographical #i #i am #writer

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#autobiographical #becomes #fiction #talent #true

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal. ↗

— Alice Munro

#feel #i #i feel #know #learned

I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#anyone #assumed #autobiographical #because #books