Autobiography Quote by Philip Roth

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing,…

— Kate Atkinson

“The Tanzanian told her that all fiction was therapy, some sort of therapy, no matter what anybody said.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other…

— Arundhati Roy

“Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction—so we are told. Therefore”

— Virginia Woolf

“Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction — so we are told.”

— Virginia Wolff

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

— Ulysses S. Grant

I had wanted to write 'The Possessed' as fiction, but everyone told me that no one would read a novel about graduate students. It…

— Elif Batuman

“He searched her face for the hint of compassion. It wasn’t there. She had never written a word of fiction in her life. Why…

— James A. Newman

What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows into an…

— Philip Roth

“If you don’t know the fantasy life of a country, it’s hard to write fiction about it.”

— Philip Roth

I haven't written a word of fiction since 2009. I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did and it's done.…

— Philip Roth

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

— Stephen Hawking