Believe Quote by Diane Setterfield

“Readers," continued Miss Winter, "are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The…

— Diane Setterfield

The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.

— Paul Auster

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

— Terry McMillan

Fiction always reveals a lot about the person who is writing it. That's the scary thing. Not in a straightforward autobiographical sense. But the…

— Katie Kitamura

In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of…

— Rohinton Mistry

All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same…

— John Banville

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material…

— Terry Brooks

Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

— Rose Wilder Lane

“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.”

— Tom Wiseman

I think what makes you feel so connected with certain writers isn't a matter of autobiographical detail, but that the emotions are real. The…

— Chris Kraus

Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are…

— Terry Brooks

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who…

— Flannery O'Connor