Autobiography Quote by Matthew McGrory

When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I was so,…

— Sophie Kinsella

“There’s a chasm between writing about yourself and writing about your personal life. A lot of young writers want to turn their lives into…

— Billy Marshall Stoneking

The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and people out…

— Diablo Cody

Look, anything any writer writes is going to be on some level autobiographical. Part of the funny/sad thing is that you don't always know…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I started out as a writer of fiction, but nobody wanted to publish my work as a young man. So I decided to put…

— Fred Kaplan

To be honest, I’m more concerned with living my life than writing about my life. I feel like that’s really the main thing I…

— Jeff Tweedy

Over the years, I had something in principle against autobiographical writing altogether because memory plays tricks on us, and we also tend to reinvent…

— Gunter Grass

I don't think my writing has much to do with my age. For me, my biography is more about what I was reading at…

— Helen Oyeyemi

I've been asked to write my autobiography, but I've not been interested.

— Shaun Ryder

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at…

— Josh Radnor

It actually took me 20 years to want to write about my youth. I was definitely always a little intimidated about writing about that…

— Greg Mottola

Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me.…

— W. P. Kinsella