Autobiographical Quote by Paul Auster

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

— Lucian Freud

When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

— Ann Patchett

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

All my works over the years have been autobiographical in the sense they reflect some part of my life, although I have fictionalised them…

— Ruskin Bond

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing…

— Ann Patchett

All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's…

— Paul Auster

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at…

— Josh Radnor

My books aren't autobiographical.

— Emily Giffin

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

I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal.

— Kwame Dawes

All of my plays are deeply autobiographical. But it's not straight autobiography.

— Stephen Karam

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

— David Leavitt