Autobiography Quote by Nina Bawden

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

— Terry McMillan

Sometimes, a writer's life alone can tell a story.

— Howard Jacobson

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A…

— Maurice Blanchot

You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.

— Paul Theroux

I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.

— Nick Flynn

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

— V. S. Naipaul

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

— Milan Kundera

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

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

— David Leavitt

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

— Judith Guest

Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters and journals…

— Paul Theroux

Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged…

— Nicholas Delbanco