Books Quote by Laurie Foos

All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's…

— Paul Auster

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

— Ann Patchett

I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them.

— Anna Quindlen

When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.

— Salman Rushdie

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That…

— Janet Fitch

Because of the wonderfully positive response to 'Life's That Way,' I am considering writing some more autobiographical stuff - maybe another book. I don't…

— Jim Beaver

There's a huge distance between who I am as a regular person and what takes place in my fiction.

— David Means

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

— Tom Perrotta

Although a novel takes place in the larger world, there's always some drive in it that is entirely personal - even if you don't…

— Joan Didion

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

— Ann Brashares

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

— Paul Auster

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you.…

— Lynn Johnston