Different Quote by Paul Auster

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

What I'm trying to say is that a lot that lies behind being able to live the writing life is psychological and wrapped up…

— Nathan Englander

That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction.

— Marcy Dermansky

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and…

— John Grogan

I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and…

— Helen Fielding

The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and…

— Janet Frame

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

It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.

— Leigh Newman

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

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

All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same…

— John Banville

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