Age Quote by Margaret Atwood

All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.

— Norman Spinrad

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

— V. S. Naipaul

I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes it up.…

— Edwidge Danticat

I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

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

You can't hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader - in…

— Rob Roberge

Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when I would…

— Jonathan Ames

The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.

— Varley O'Connor

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes,…

— Jodi Picoult

Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or…

— George R. R. Martin

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

— David Leavitt

Everything I write doesn't appear to be biography until later. I often say that I've never written about anything I've experienced. Of course, that's…

— Suzan-Lori Parks