Anything Quote by Patrick Marber

I don't mind if what they write about me has some truth in it. Pure imagination makes me feel sad about the whole thing.

— Shaheer Sheikh

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

— Jeanette Winterson

Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much…

— Edwidge Danticat

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

I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it.

— Mitchell Hurwitz

When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'

— Peter Carey

What led me to that was I have never - I mean, I watch movies and I don't care who is the protagonist. I…

— Meryl Streep

I'm an actor, I created the character myself originally. I do tell the fans I appreciate that they think he's real. It all finally…

— Creed Bratton

In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a…

— Joaquin Phoenix

It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used to, mainly…

— Terry Pratchett

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

— David Leavitt

A lot of things that I write about have happened to people around me, if not necessarily to me or in the organizations I've…

— Ravi Subramanian