Anecdotes Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Anonymous

I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.

— Garth Greenwell

All autobiography is fiction.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

Biographies never feel as real as the best fiction. There is such a discontinuity between the narrative and the material it comes from, which…

— Janet Malcolm

“Nonfiction is a form of literature that lies halfway between fiction and fact.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I think I do more fiction than autobiography.

— Martine Syms

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

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

— Katherine Paterson

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

— Frank Harris

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

— Peter Ackroyd

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

— Mark Twain