Blog 4: Autobiography

Murray wants us to reconsider our approach to writing as autobiographical. He believes that all writing is autobiographical and most of what is used from our lives, we learn in the first 20 years of our life, while the rest of our years are used for observation. Murray states, "those of us who write have few topics" (67) meaning that we take the few personal certainties from our first 20 years of life and we revolve around them. Murray says that most of his stories revolve around his family and his childhood. So he wants us to reconstruct our way of thinking when we write to make our writing as personal as possible. And the most personal way of thinking, is through an autobiographical sense.