Autobiography Quote by Garth Greenwell

I think I do more fiction than autobiography.

— Martine Syms

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

— Katherine Paterson

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'

— Joyce Carol Oates

All autobiography is fiction.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your…

— Marjane Satrapi

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

— V. S. Naipaul

Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged…

— Nicholas Delbanco

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

— Tom Stoppard

... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.

— Elizabeth Bowen

What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.

— Varley O'Connor

I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them.

— Anna Quindlen

Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

— Lynne Tillman