Children Quote by Matthew McConaughey

Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything but the…

— Lily King

Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based on them.…

— Liane Moriarty

My life is kinda like a story that if I told you about it, you probably wouldn't believe. It would seem like fiction. That's…

— Anonymous

The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal…

— Eugene Mirman

I am not an autobiographical writer.

— Yann Martel

A lot of things that I write about have happened to people around me, if not necessarily to me or in the organizations I've…

— Ravi Subramanian

My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six months ago and said she wanted to…

— David Sedaris

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

— David Leavitt

I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my…

— George Orwell

My mother lived her life through movies and books - she read everything there was to read. And she read to me every night.…

— Jerry Weintraub

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

— Maya Angelou

One night when my longing for her was like a fire burning out of control in my heart and my head, I wrote her…

— Stephen King