The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than 'The Metamorphosis'. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction. — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised. — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect,… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
The feeling of being an outsider, and the identity theme, are hardwired into me. If there's anything really autobiographical in my fiction,… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“We can study files for decades, but every so often we are tempted to throw up our hands and declare that history… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
As a gay writer and someone who began by writing autobiographical fiction, it's hard to get away from chatter of "You're just… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
“Perhaps for many Japanese, autobiographical fiction writing is life. We are a people expected to complement, to harmonize, to anticipate one another's… — Lydia Minatoya Copy Share Image
