Always Quote by Jennifer Egan

I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can…

— Bret Easton Ellis

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

— David Leavitt

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

All writers are autobiographical to a degree and writing about the nature of their inner life. My inner life has always been a struggle…

— Francis Levy

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

— Paul Auster

“When I write, I go to live inside the book. By which I mean, mentally I can experience everything I’m writing about. I can…

— Tanith Lee

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

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

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

— Shooter Jennings

I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.

— Susan Straight

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

— Ralph Peters

The things that I write are autobiographical in a surreal sense, like when you have a dream and you go to the doctor's office,…

— Diablo Cody