Autobiography Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

I think I do more fiction than autobiography.

— Martine Syms

“...in autobiography, as in all literature, what actually happened is less important than what the author can manage to persuade his audience to believe”

— Salman Rushdie

When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'

— Peter Carey

I am not an autobiographical writer.

— Yann Martel

The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition.

— Mason Cooley

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

— V. S. Naipaul

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

— Tom Stoppard

Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when I would…

— Jonathan Ames

I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.

— Clifton Fadiman

Being an actress, it's hard to publish things without people thinking everything is autobiographical.

— Emma Roberts

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

— Sidney Poitier

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