Different Quote by John D'Agata

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing,…

— Kate Atkinson

All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same…

— John Banville

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 think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

— Jami Attenberg

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 don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your…

— Marjane Satrapi

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

The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.

— Paul Auster

I think I do more fiction than autobiography.

— Martine Syms

All my works over the years have been autobiographical in the sense they reflect some part of my life, although I have fictionalised them…

— Ruskin Bond

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

There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write -…

— Ian Anderson