Always Quote by Ian Anderson

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

Look, anything any writer writes is going to be on some level autobiographical. Part of the funny/sad thing is that you don't always know…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Anything I write is going to be autobiographical and true to some degree.

— Shooter Jennings

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at…

— Josh Radnor

When you write something you know, you're making a story that will work, whether or not there's bits taken. It's always funny to me…

— Greta Gerwig

I think what makes you feel so connected with certain writers isn't a matter of autobiographical detail, but that the emotions are real. The…

— Chris Kraus

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which…

— Shirley Jackson

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

I have very rarely written autobiographical stuff. "Greasy Lake" and some other works have some autobiographical elements, as does "Birnam Wood," the one I…

— T.C. Boyle

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

— David Leavitt

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

— Natalie Merchant