House Quote by Al Pacino

The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.

— Paul Auster

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

It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book ever happened…

— Harper Lee

The things that I write are autobiographical in a surreal sense, like when you have a dream and you go to the doctor's office,…

— Diablo Cody

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.

— Stephen Daldry

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

Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction.

— Lisa Unger

All of my plays are deeply autobiographical. But it's not straight autobiography.

— Stephen Karam

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

— Maya Angelou

I don't think I have ever made a movie that is autobiographical, but you can't help but use experiences in your life in the…

— Rob Minkoff

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

People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.

— Andrea Arnold