Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about…

People once said they were "in" psychoanalysis, meaning they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their autobiographies.

— R Z Sheppard

I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one reason why…

— Anita Pallenberg

I have a lot of teenage readers and readers in their early twenties. My writing style appeals to them. And if they look at…

— Julia Quinn

I believe artists should be able to step into other people's situations, contexts and cultures and work from there. If artists don't have that…

— Uwem Akpan

Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies.

— Steven Pinker

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

“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

Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.

— Lisel Mueller

“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

“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 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

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