There's a certain point, when you're writing…

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

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.

— Harvey Pekar

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

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

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is…

— Ben Marcus

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

— Terry McMillan

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

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

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