When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of…

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

— Mark Strand

As a gay writer and someone who began by writing autobiographical fiction, it's hard to get away from chatter of "You're just a narcissist,"…

— Douglas A. Martin

Because of the wonderfully positive response to 'Life's That Way,' I am considering writing some more autobiographical stuff - maybe another book. I don't…

— Jim Beaver

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

— Terry McMillan

In fact, writing, especially writing autobiographical works, and this is actually the fourth time I've done it, each time I've done it I've felt…

— Paul Auster

“Readers," continued Miss Winter, "are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The…

— Diane Setterfield

I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use my memory…

— Sefi Atta

Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs…

— Diane Setterfield

First of all, all writing includes some part of the self. The relationship of the self and the other exists in writing, whether autobiographical…

— Nawal El Saadawi

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

— Alison Bechdel

I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.

— Jonathan Tropper

Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it…

— Antonio Damasio

Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's so angry."…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this is exactly…

— Cecily von Ziegesar

“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind…

— Yiyun Li