Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something…

Where's the mileage in an autobiography? Anyone who writes one inevitably casts themselves as a hero, and I'm not about to do that.

— John Cooper Clarke

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

— Antonia Fraser

“Autobiographical writing acts as a timeless testament to each person’s epic record of adventure, heartache, road to perdition, and achievement of a spiritual life…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“It's the truth, though rarely admitted, that every autobiographical work has a touch of fiction and every fiction has a touch of autobiography.”

— Santosh Kumar Das

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

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A…

— Raymond Carver

Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected volume, which…

— Paul Auster

“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

“Attempting to express a person’s objective reality and subjective state of mind with the written word is an endless task because writing alters our…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I have very rarely written autobiographical stuff. "Greasy Lake" and some other works have some autobiographical elements, as does "Birnam Wood," the one I…

— T.C. Boyle

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

— Jonathan Tropper

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

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

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