About yourself Quote by Ernest Cline

In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find…

— Robert Penn Warren

When you write a novel, there’s a level at which you are much more revealing about who you are because you’re less self-conscious about…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?

— Steven Saylor

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

— David Leavitt

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

— Milan Kundera

Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced…

— Johnny Vegas

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

— Garry Hynes

If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I was gonna…

— James Frey

I've never talked to anyone writing a book on me. I've had so much written about me that is made up, usually something that…

— Warren Beatty

A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.

— Janet Fitch

“Of course, if I write a first-person novel about a woman writer, I am inviting every book reviewer to apply the autobiographical label --…

— John Irving

I don't mind what people say about me. I've never read a book about myself.

— Rupert Murdoch