About Quote by Elizabeth Strout

The feeling of being an outsider, and the identity theme, are hardwired into me. If there's anything really autobiographical in my fiction, it's that…

— Dan Chaon

One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

— Marilynne Robinson

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is…

— Gillian Cross

When you realize the writers start writing to who you are, you're basically reading reviews of yourself. And then it becomes this cyclical nightmare…

— Ben Feldman

my experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I find there.

— Marion Dane Bauer

All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's…

— Paul Auster

Naturally, I've always felt more like a writer myself, and I've always written. I have people who are writers who've been promoting that side…

— Craig Bierko

I think I'm attracted to writers who tell us something about ourselves.

— Garry Hynes

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

— David Leavitt

I'm not much interested in my own self when I write. I'm interested in what I observe out there, what's going on around me.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people who listen…

— John Darnielle

A lot of things that I write about have happened to people around me, if not necessarily to me or in the organizations I've…

— Ravi Subramanian