"Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers?"

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Source : Jill Ker Conway (2011). “When Memory Speaks: Exploring the Art of Autobiography”, p.3, Vintage

Jill Ker Conway

#Fiction Quotes #Modern Quotes #Form Quotes

“When key users told us something wasn't working, we fixed it - immediately.”
“Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.”
“Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.”
“We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.”

Source : Anthony Marra (2013). “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena”, p.339, Random House
“ladies are just those of us who have been silenced.”
“I tried to get Adam Sandler hired on a movie called "Brain Donors" and the producers wouldn't hire him. And a few years later, he was doing "Happy Gilmore" and he remembered I had fought for him, so he hired me.”

Source : Source: thesource.com
“Sometimes we succeed because of our upbringing, sometimes we do so in spite of it.”

Source : Lois Greiman (2007). “Unmanned”, p.162, Dell
“It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but that's how I view it.”

Source : "Evan Davis: 'I'm a presenter who is gay rather than a gay presenter'". Interview With Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.

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