http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/the-best-things-i-never-wrote-quote-of-the-day-3/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Mon, 20 May 2013 13:35:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/the-best-things-i-never-wrote-quote-of-the-day-3/#comment-95 Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:59:15 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/the-best-things-i-never-wrote-quote-of-the-day-3/#comment-95 Differnt degress of thickness or transparency -i like that.

]]> http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/the-best-things-i-never-wrote-quote-of-the-day-3/#comment-93 Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:19:24 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/the-best-things-i-never-wrote-quote-of-the-day-3/#comment-93 I’d say that all fiction is autobiographical in some way (not necessarily genres such as technical writing or investigative reporting). Louise Erdrich had a great line about this. She said that even when writing is directly autobiographical, there’s a paraphrase going on — it’s never a verbatim transcript. I agree with you that we can we filter fiction through our own lives. So I’m just adding that the filter can have different degrees thickness or transparency.

]]> http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/the-best-things-i-never-wrote-quote-of-the-day-3/#comment-92 Sun, 28 Jan 2007 02:21:50 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/the-best-things-i-never-wrote-quote-of-the-day-3/#comment-92 Its interesting, even Stephen King writes in a biographical manner. But isn’t all writing, no matter the period of literary time pr genre, biographical in some way or another? As writers we can only write through the filter of our own life experiences. All characters, settings, themes, and plots are based upon those things of the same nature that live within us either outrightly or subvertly.

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