"A writer's work may be a coded autobiography,……" — Nina Bawden

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• Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is… — Kate Atkinson
• Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. — John Berger
• 'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music. — Mary J. Blige
• Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data… — Nicholas Delbanco
• Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of… — Marilyn Ferguson
• Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself. — Robert Breault
• I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so… — Philip Roth
• Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price. — Nikola Tesla
• But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when… — Nikola Tesla
• When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots. — Nikola Tesla
• A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results. — Nikola Tesla

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