Book Quote by Harper Lee

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

— Paul Auster

I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of…

— Jodi Picoult

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

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things…

— Alice Munro

Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction.

— Lisa Unger

I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can…

— Bret Easton Ellis

There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.

— Donald Barthelme

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

— James Joyce

The most autobiographical thing I've ever written is my second novel, called 'An Ocean in Iowa.' That is pretty close to my childhood.

— Peter Hedges

My books aren't autobiographical.

— Emily Giffin

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