Books Quote by Jay Neugeboren

I put myself into another world and another identity, and I design not for how my life is but for how my imaginary life…

— Emilia Wickstead

What is writing but an expression of my own life?

— Zane Grey

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

— Lucian Freud

“Writing novels allows you to create your own world.”

— Norman Shabel

Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not…

— Barack Obama

Creations, whether they are children, poems, or organizations, take on a life of their own.

— Starhawk

A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.

— Janet Fitch

My essential identity is that of a writer.

— Athol Fugard

All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's…

— Paul Auster

What I write about in my novels is also what's in my life.

— Elin Hilderbrand

“life rarely finds its exact likeness in a novel, that is hardly fiction’s purpose,”

— Katie Kitamura

You need to write on your own and produce your own life.

— Courtney Love