Autobiography Quote by Anna Quindlen

I think I do more fiction than autobiography.

— Martine Syms

I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real…

— Claire Tomalin

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though…

— Richard Hell

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

— Katherine Paterson

In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find…

— Robert Penn Warren

Frankly, I would never like to write an autobiography because my life is an open book.

— Sudha Chandran

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

— Ann Patchett

Some people don't like my fiction, because they prefer the nonfiction. But moving around keeps the work fresh for me and, hopefully, for my…

— Colson Whitehead

For about as long as I've been writing fiction, I've kept a record of the books I've read.

— Katie Kitamura

I've come to think of myself as a writer of books.

— Richard Hell

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more…

— John Irving

Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the…

— E. L. Doctorow