Bits Quote by Donald Barthelme

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

— Paul Auster

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

— David Leavitt

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

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

My books aren't autobiographical.

— Emily Giffin

You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions.

— Paul Auster

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

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

— Natalie Merchant

I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this is exactly…

— Cecily von Ziegesar

I am not an autobiographical writer.

— Yann Martel

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

It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book ever happened…

— Harper Lee