Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is…

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

I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on…

— Tao Lin

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

— David Leavitt

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

— Maya Angelou

Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that…

— Edmund White

The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than 'The Metamorphosis'.

— Jonathan Franzen

“We can study files for decades, but every so often we are tempted to throw up our hands and declare that history is merely…

— Julian Barnes

“Perhaps for many Japanese, autobiographical fiction writing is life. We are a people expected to complement, to harmonize, to anticipate one another's needs. All…

— Lydia Minatoya

The feeling of being an outsider, and the identity theme, are hardwired into me. If there's anything really autobiographical in my fiction, it's that…

— Dan Chaon

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

— Jonathan Tropper

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

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

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

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

“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