Autobiography Quote by Peter Carey

I think I do more fiction than autobiography.

— Martine Syms

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

— Katherine Paterson

I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your…

— Marjane Satrapi

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

— Tom Stoppard

I don't have a clear biography of my own that I could recount in an interesting way. I'm made up of the characters that…

— Olga Tokarczuk

I have no plans to write an autobiography, I will leave that to others. I'm sure they will turn me into a homosexual or…

— Cary Grant

Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when I would…

— Jonathan Ames

I didn't want to sugarcoat anything. I wanted to make an honest story. Of course, to write a real autobiography, you've got to tell…

— Superstar Billy Graham

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

— Sidney Poitier

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

— Fay Weldon

All autobiography is fiction.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

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

— David Leavitt