Autobiography Quote by Kate Atkinson

We approach nonfiction at a much different level than we approach fiction or poetry or drama: that there's almost no room for metaphor. We…

— John D'Agata

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

The problem with an autobiography is that all these extra factors make it difficult. You don't want to hurt people's feelings. You don't know…

— Richard Hell

In a novel there's not much autobiography. There are characters in transit. Naturally, I can project something of my experiences onto the characters, but…

— Dacia Maraini

The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.

— Patricia Hampl

You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.

— Ricky Hatton

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

Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.

— Lisel Mueller

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

“The principal theme of any autobiography revolves around the brushwork of self-transformation, the freeing of the self from the strictures of self-imposed limitations, fears,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster