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I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which…

— Shirley Jackson

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

There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write -…

— Ian Anderson

I am not an autobiographical writer.

— Yann Martel

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

— David Leavitt

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'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I don't write autobiographically.

— Meg Wolitzer

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

— Mark Strand

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

For better or worse, I seem to gravitate toward writing about something or someone else, then have my own self shove its way into…

— Lucas Mann

My books aren't autobiographical.

— Emily Giffin