Draws Quote by Diablo Cody

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

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

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

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things…

— Alice Munro

Anything I write is going to be autobiographical and true to some degree.

— Shooter Jennings

All my works over the years have been autobiographical in the sense they reflect some part of my life, although I have fictionalised them…

— Ruskin Bond

Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix.

— Frankie Cosmos

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which…

— Shirley Jackson

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

— David Leavitt

I have very rarely written autobiographical stuff. "Greasy Lake" and some other works have some autobiographical elements, as does "Birnam Wood," the one I…

— T.C. Boyle

People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.

— Andrea Arnold

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

— Natalie Merchant