Autobiography Quote by Martine Syms

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.

— Arthur Smith

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

— Tom Stoppard

I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on…

— Tao Lin

I think fiction allows you to inhabit new domains and it's you, the reader living in that domain for a few days that results…

— Mohsin Hamid

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing,…

— Kate Atkinson

“I would say, for the moment, that community, at least community larger than the immediate family, consists very largely of imaginative love for people…

— Marilynne Robinson

Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid culture that…

— Percival Everett

I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.

— Dale Peck

“I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.…

— Colm Tóibín

Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The writer is…

— Arundhati Roy

I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his…

— Ridley Pearson

If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up.

— John Dufresne