Adversity Quote by Michelle Visage

I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I…

— Simone de Beauvoir

There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we take into…

— Francis Spufford

I think I do more fiction than autobiography.

— Martine Syms

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

— Sidney Poitier

“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

In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find…

— Robert Penn Warren

I had many doubts while writing my autobiography. I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested to read about my life.

— Naseeruddin Shah

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

— Katherine Paterson

Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.

— Lisel Mueller

Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write a memoir.

— Michael Korda