Autobiography Quote by Lionel Shriver

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

— V. S. Naipaul

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 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

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

— David Leavitt

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

— Terry McMillan

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

— V. S. Naipaul

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

— Tom Stoppard

It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are…

— Margaret Atwood

An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions.

— Claud Cockburn

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

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

— Mark Strand