Character Quote by Marge Piercy

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know…

— Hunter S. Thompson

In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of…

— Rohinton Mistry

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

— Varley O'Connor

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

— David Leavitt

One of the things that makes characters real is details. Life offers a lot of details. You just have to choose and use them…

— Nick Earls

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

— Karen Russell

All my works over the years have been autobiographical in the sense they reflect some part of my life, although I have fictionalised them…

— Ruskin Bond

I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life.

— Mona Simpson

Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.

— Kim Edwards

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making…

— Julia Glass

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

Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much…

— Edwidge Danticat