Fiction Quote by Jonathan Franzen

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

— Paul Auster

Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me.…

— W. P. Kinsella

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

— Terry McMillan

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

— James Joyce

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

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

— Jeanne Moreau

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

— David Leavitt

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

All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.

— Anonymous

Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction.

— Lisa Unger

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

— Tom Stoppard

It's actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It's a matter of carving away what doesn't fit rather than building…

— Craig Thompson