Autobiographical Quote by John Irving

When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I was so,…

— Sophie Kinsella

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

— David Leavitt

For better or worse, I seem to gravitate toward writing about something or someone else, then have my own self shove its way into…

— Lucas Mann

Look, anything any writer writes is going to be on some level autobiographical. Part of the funny/sad thing is that you don't always know…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which…

— Shirley Jackson

“I was a little resentful that when a woman writes, her personal story becomes part of the story, even though the novel is fiction.”

— Roxane Gay

If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as a woman…

— Margaret Atwood

I've never talked to anyone writing a book on me. I've had so much written about me that is made up, usually something that…

— Warren Beatty

Even though I read voraciously as a child, I never saw myself in books. Without narratives to expand my ideas of who I could…

— Jesmyn Ward

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

In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find…

— Robert Penn Warren

I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.

— Vikas Swarup