Book Quote by Jodi Picoult

It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book ever happened…

— Harper Lee

I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this is exactly…

— Cecily von Ziegesar

My books aren't autobiographical.

— Emily Giffin

I did have imprinted on me the idea of trauma that changes things dramatically and suddenly. As a writer, I return to that again…

— Ann Packer

I think that definitely any trauma - whether it's childhood or later in life - affects you negatively, especially when it's suppressed, but there's…

— Roland Orzabal

These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one…

— Peter Straub

I was traumatized by a lot of childhood stuff. I felt that I was bad somewhere, starting with my birth.

— Joel Grey

I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things…

— Jeff Kinney

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

There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.

— Donald Barthelme

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

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

— Maya Angelou