Books Quote by Alice Mattison

When you write something you know, you're making a story that will work, whether or not there's bits taken. It's always funny to me…

— Greta Gerwig

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

Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs…

— Diane Setterfield

I think what makes you feel so connected with certain writers isn't a matter of autobiographical detail, but that the emotions are real. The…

— Chris Kraus

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

I'm always fascinated by why a person becomes a writer.

— Adriana Trigiani

There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring biography of…

— Robert Gottlieb

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They…

— Cornelia Funke

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

— Terry McMillan

I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written…

— Blake Bailey

One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that you're constantly dredging up some arcane knowledge or long-forgotten experience, rediscovering old passions…

— Christina Baker Kline

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

— Jeffrey Eugenides