Believe Quote by Paul Auster

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.

— Paul Auster

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

— Paul Auster

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That…

— Janet Fitch

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

— Roddy Doyle

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

— Ann Patchett

I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the novel or…

— Laurie Foos

What I write about in my novels is also what's in my life.

— Elin Hilderbrand

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

— David Leavitt

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

— Tom Perrotta

I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I just use…

— Bill Bryson

All writers are autobiographical to a degree and writing about the nature of their inner life. My inner life has always been a struggle…

— Francis Levy

I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them.

— Anna Quindlen