Absolute Quote by Chris Bohjalian

Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements.…

— Jeanette Winterson

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader.

— Mitch Albom

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

— Theodore Sturgeon

If people call my book an actor's memoir I will be very upset. I can't bear anything too literal, so it has elements of…

— Zawe Ashton

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

— Karen Russell

Story is important but the most important is the theme and how you're going to convey theme cinematically. I'm a believer also.

— Alfonso Cuaron

There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your…

— Jeanette Winterson

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

— Augusten Burroughs

Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I…

— Cheryl Strayed

I've always liked the fact that fiction takes all these pretty unquantifiable human feelings and experiences and projects them onto the page in ways…

— Scott Bradfield

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people…

— Nick Earls

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

— Emma Donoghue