Best work Quote by Ann Patchett

My work was entirely nonfiction.

— Laura Hillenbrand

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing…

— Ann Patchett

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

— Paul Auster

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

— Sidney Poitier

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

— Paul Auster

From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own material.

— Emeli Sande

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

— Tim LaHaye

I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them.

— Anna Quindlen

A lot of what I write is very personal.

— Elif Batuman

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

— Jill Lepore

I think I do more fiction than autobiography.

— Martine Syms

The fact that I get to write and direct my own personal story is an amazing thing.

— Nicole Holofcener