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In Murray's piece All Writing is Autobiographical, he challenges us to break one of the constructs that has been formed over years and years of schooling and English classes. This is the fact the we view non-fiction writing as being non-autobiographical, and the fact of the matter is that all of you writing is a compilation of our past experiences and the tiny things that make us who we are. Murray states "Well, that is academic writing, writing to instruct, textbook writing. It is clearly nonfiction, and to me it is clearly autobiography". Later on in the same paragraph Murray concludes this thought by mentioning "We make up our own history, our own legends, and our own knowledge by writing our autobiography". The point he makes clearly reinforces how what we write is a product of who we are, and that we must remember in order to make successful literary works we must remember to write autobiographically.