Autobiography Quote by Mark Leyner

“In a way, an autobiography seems to me like a household book of accounts – what has been acquired, to what purpose has it…

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

“...in autobiography, as in all literature, what actually happened is less important than what the author can manage to persuade his audience to believe”

— Salman Rushdie

Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further…

— Neville Cardus

“Writing may be masturbatory, but God forbid it should be an act of autocannibalism.”

— Stephen King

“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind…

— Yiyun Li

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

Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs…

— Diane Setterfield

“Writing the story of their own life allows the author to parse their story into examinable segments while continuing to engage in the act…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“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

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very…

— Steven Erikson

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

— Tom Robbins

“The pale organisms of literary heroes feeding under the author's supervision swell gradually with the reader's lifeblood; so that the genius of a writer…

— Vladimir Nabokov