Believe Quote by Anonymous

Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much…

— Edwidge Danticat

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

If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up.

— John Dufresne

I think both you and I, we live in a world of fiction and stories.

— Regina Spektor

A lot of things that I write about have happened to people around me, if not necessarily to me or in the organizations I've…

— Ravi Subramanian

Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when I would…

— Jonathan Ames

Fiction is my home, I came from fiction, I like to tell stories.

— Fatih Ak?n

I don't think "I'm going to publish this as fiction" but I think "I'm going to tell this story to a friend" and then…

— Ben Lerner

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

— David Leavitt

Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

— Janette Rallison

The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.

— Todd Strasser

I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner.

— Helena Christensen