Emotional Quote by Ben Marcus

When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and I said,…

— Melissa Febos

Over the years, I had something in principle against autobiographical writing altogether because memory plays tricks on us, and we also tend to reinvent…

— Gunter Grass

To be honest, I’m more concerned with living my life than writing about my life. I feel like that’s really the main thing I…

— Jeff Tweedy

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

When I was first approached about doing an autobiography, I said, 'absolutely not.' But when I sat down, memories came pouring out. It wrote…

— Julia Cameron

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

— 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

I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death of my…

— Robert Crais

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

I'd never imagined myself writing at all until I was almost 30. And horror films weren't to my taste, at least the super popular…

— Karen Walton

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

— Sue Grafton

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