All autobiography is fiction.

If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your preposition. It…

— Lorrie Moore

Obviously, in marketing, the best tool is to show the autobiography in fiction. It's inevitable how that happens, but it's generic. Say I've written…

— Dinaw Mengestu

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in…

— William Trevor

There is a tendency to presume autobiography in fiction by women or minorities. Guys named Jonathan write universal stories, while there's this sense that…

— Rumaan Alam

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing,…

— Kate Atkinson

The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses,…

— Flannery O'Connor

biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.

— Linda Simon

The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about in my…

— Siddharth Katragadda

I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as…

— Sloane Crosley

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

— Anonymous

I caught a cold and didn't have time to work on my autobiography.

— Julie Doucet

“As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir…

— Craig Briggs

“Someday, I want to write an unauthorized autobiography of myself.”

— David McMullen-Sullivan

“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 think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

— Stephen Adly Guirgis