Book Quote by James Frey

I feel that if I'm writing a book, it has to be an honest book: it has to say what I believe to be…

— Penny Junor

“If you’re honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest one. And…

— Joe Clifford Faust

I knew right from the beginning that if I was going to write a book, I would write my version of the truth and…

— Manisha Koirala

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

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

— Mark Strand

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull…

— Iris Chang

I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.

— Ernest Cline

Even though I read voraciously as a child, I never saw myself in books. Without narratives to expand my ideas of who I could…

— Jesmyn Ward

I wouldn't be a writer if I couldn't tell the truth.

— Jenny Mollen

Writing my first book, 'Beautiful,' was the time that I was able to write the truth of it - that I was despairing at…

— Katie Piper

The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the…

— Groucho Marx

You find yourself writing the truth, because it's like, 'Well, I ain't writing for anyone but myself anyway.'

— Walker Hayes