Ability Quote by Aimee Bender

The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and people out…

— Diablo Cody

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at…

— Josh Radnor

There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write -…

— Ian Anderson

“The principal theme of any autobiography revolves around the brushwork of self-transformation, the freeing of the self from the strictures of self-imposed limitations, fears,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Look, anything any writer writes is going to be on some level autobiographical. Part of the funny/sad thing is that you don't always know…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

— Paul Auster

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

— Lucian Freud

I should say, I don't write about myself or my life. So for me, in fiction, it's always been about what I can dream…

— Jennifer Egan

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Over the years, I had something in principle against autobiographical writing altogether because memory plays tricks on us, and we also tend to reinvent…

— Gunter Grass

All my works over the years have been autobiographical in the sense they reflect some part of my life, although I have fictionalised them…

— Ruskin Bond

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

— David Leavitt