Books Quote by Jami Attenberg

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

— Carly Fiorina

I am not an autobiographical writer.

— Yann Martel

My books aren't autobiographical.

— Emily Giffin

I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.

— Nathan Englander

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

All my journalism, all my books are first person, and it's all memoir. Even when I'm writing about the oil spill in the Gulf,…

— Peter Heller

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.

— Tim LaHaye

My work was entirely nonfiction.

— Laura Hillenbrand

By the time I wrote my memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' I had been running from writing it for a long time. When the events…

— Jesmyn Ward

Part of the thing about why I wrote memoirs rather than a novel is that if anybody is going to tell my story it…

— Carol Drinkwater

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

I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.

— Vikas Swarup