Shirley Jackson
Related BILL BRYSON Outside of interviews, I spend very little time thinking about myself. I spend time thinking about m... MONICA ALI When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to ... BEN MARCUS My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings. LUCIAN FREUD We didn't think it was particularly pertinent to what we'd be testifying about. I can only testify t... CLAUDIO MANNO BILL BRYSON Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him ... JACKIE JACKSON I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way ... JILL MCCORKLE ANTONY BEEVOR PAUL AUSTER When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the ou... PAT BARKER Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature. CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. S... TAYLOR MOMSEN As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life. BEN GIBBARD DANNY STRONG I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to g... CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO I felt very comfortable about myself when I was much heavier. I feel much better about myself from b... JEFF GARLIN All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In... PEDRO ALMODOVAR Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based ... MATTHEW MCGRORY If you ask me about my success story, the secret is I know when to pull myself back. I don't ove... SONU NIGAM PETER ZUMTHOR If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself... JUDY COLLINS DONNA TARTT ELLEN DEGENERES JAMES JOYCE VIRGINIA POSTREL I am a big proponent of writing a great outline. That way you can avoid hitting a roadblock. There i... MICHAEL SHOWALTER In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences. MIRIAM TOEWS SARAH DESSEN NENIA CAMPBELL I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth i... J. M. COETZEE JAMES PATTERSON Very much more confident, much more stronger about my body and about myself, and it's been a great e... KRISTEN CRUZ CAT PATRICK KURT VONNEGUT LEMONY SNICKET When I feel myself slipping to the darkness of my past, I’ll close my eyes and remember this. Reme... STACEY TROMBLEY HUNTER S. THOMPSON One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in findi... JAMES PAYN DUANE MICHALS PATTI SMITH I can only talk about myself. That's who my campaign is about. GINA CALDER JONATHAN TROPPER SHIRLEY TEMPLE BAT FOR LASHES You know, there's chronological age, there's biological age, and there's psychological a... CHERYL TIEGS I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I wr... LAURA BELL BUNDY I do consider myself a Norwegian writer, or a Scandinavian writer, as my family tree reaches into bo... PER PETTERSON WAYNE DYER I think about you much more than any self-respecting man would like to admit, and I'm insanely je... KODY KEPLINGER I feel the desires to suicide sometimes but I understand that thinking about suicidal is wrong; as m... BASIL TONG (湯鈞庭 ベーゼル) SYLVIA PLATH It gave us a little breathing room, which we needed very much at the end of the game. It gave us abo... JEFF LANGREHR KEN LIU ERIN MORGENSTERN ADELE BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN ALBERT ELLIS Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the r... GLORIA ANZALDUA JAMES JOYCE JAMES JOYCE WALTER DEAN MYERS NORMAN ANGELL NORMAN ANGELL ALBERT ELLIS ORSON WELLES I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I re... K. FLAY WALT WHITMAN WALT WHITMAN JAMES BALDWIN DUANE MICHALS ERICH FROMM ERICH FROMM ERICH FROMM I was four when I started modeling. My mom was very much an off-the-stage mom who knew nothing about... CHARLOTTE ARNOLD I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, ... KAREN ROBARDS LAURYN HILL MAYA ANGELOU I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everythin... SERGEI PROKOFIEV Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me,... JACKIE DESHANNON WILL ROGERS TANITH LEE SETH MEYERS JOE SACCO KATY PERRY I am your friend and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not g... FRA GIOVANNI GIOCONDO WALTER BAGEHOT ALFRED ADLER Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered... MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. Bu... BARRY SCHWARTZ There is a strong demand for Michael Jackson's music and merchandise, and that will only increas... ADAM KLUGER JONATHAN CARROLL DR. CHARLES EDWARDS The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increas... CHARLES EDWARDS DR. CHARLES EDWARDS BAT FOR LASHES I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colo... ARVO PART ALEXANDRA PETRI RALPH ELLISON WILLIAM FAULKNER
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I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they ... 
I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my in... 
I read round the subject, I make a skeleton outline, and then I start work in the relevant archives.... 
The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because ... 
I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself. 
I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material... 
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very ... 
You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an i... 
I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or ... 
We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedra... 
it sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only... 
Maybe that was the root of my dislike for her: she had what I wanted, which earned her my jealousy, ... 
I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are ve... 
When I finally accept it, the truth stings. But there's no time to dwell on it, and there are only t... 
As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human ... 
the only trouble I should get in for my writing is the trouble I make myself. 
I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking, whi... 
My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient. 
I read and feel that same compulsion; the desire to possess what he has written, which can only be s... 
I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical. 
Shirley Temple doesn't hurt Shirley Temple Black. Shirley Temple helps Shirley Temple Black. She... 
When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled a... 
The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgm... 
Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for ... 
Because my writing time has always been very limited, I try to be very choosy about which stories I ... 
I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my wri... 
Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartb... 
While I wasn't very good at much else in school, in my creative-writing classes or when we had t... 
By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas whi... 
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer be... 
After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses.... 
It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be ent... 
It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be ent... 
I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cu... 
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself. 
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself 
When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I ... 
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' wh... 
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as "moral indignation," wh... 
The only wealth I have to give, is not material - and if you need much more than that, I'm not avail... 
I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my b... 
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. 
It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm ... 
When my girlfriend and I talk about being happy, I'll get choked up, which I think is the greate... 
When I was there, something clicked in my head; I found myself interviewing people, searching out fa... 
My style icons were Gwen Stefani, when she was in No Doubt, and then Shirley Manson in Garbage. 
The notion of a farseeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a f... 
If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfil... 
I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting t... 
The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increas... 
The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increas... 
When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is whe... 
History contains heroes, but no one is a hero entirely, and no one is a hero for very long. 
I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answ... 
The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with ... 
The twins were loitering over their cereal, and Mrs. Walpole, with one eye on the clock and the othe... 
Let my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes,... 
It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer ... 
I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father of... 
I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps... 
And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches an... 
It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for ... 
I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept... 
I am not the candidate of Black America, although I am black and proud. I am not the candidate of th... 
All are equal 
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. 
I've always been bossy. 
One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wi... 
What really matters is what you do with what you have. 
The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated eit... 
No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy c... 
I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the... 
Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or to abuse them, from malice to the proprietor,... 
Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true ho... 
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: 'It's ... 
The glories of our blood and state
I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have t... 
If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore. 
I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that ... 
I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and int... 
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he a... 
Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there. 
I learned by standing in the wings and watching established acts on stage. 
You want success, and then when you do get it, you don't want it because of the attention. 
Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.