#graphical

To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life. ↗

— Dana Stabenow

#author #biographical-note #dana-stabenow #kate-shugak #liam-campbell

People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#better #books #credit #having #however

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ↗

— David Knopfler

#behind #biographical #clean #come #day

Adams drew back. He wanted Hannah, but he did not live for her. Making a name for himself was more important. He told her that he could not marry for years, until his practice was established. He knew that his honesty would doom the relationship, and Hannah in fact began to see others. Adams's ambition had triumphed over love. ↗

— John Ferling

#revolutionary-war #love

A life delayed, which I am destined to, is part of life never lived. ↗

— Ankur Basu Roy

#inspirational #inspirational

For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser. ↗

— Mike Davidson

#browser #content #decade #first #graphical

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#autobiographical #bring #i #i write #into

His father cultivated art and self-realisation; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinth and cocoa, of both of which he had a healthy dislike. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#humourous #art

Let memories of your own hometown flow back to you as you read this fascinating story, "A Place called Gouyave," about the author's recollection of the characters, stories and the lessons learnt in his hometown during his youth on the Caribbean island of Grenada. ↗

— Collis Decoteau

#life

Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them. ↗

— John Barton

#autobiographical #either #far #i #most