Admire Quote by Rachel Cusk

Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written about him…

— Aldous Huxley

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great…

— Jodi Picoult

I've published many biographies over the years and enjoyed working with writers on their research, discussing it, thinking about it and how it revealed…

— Victoria Wilson

My life is pretty ordinary in so many ways. I live in a town called Plainville. I have the life of an average dad.…

— Jeff Kinney

What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.

— Susan Sontag

In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Married and…

— Eavan Boland

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

— Paul Auster

A writer's life suits me. It's fairly, well, other people might think it was actually rather dull, but that's fine because I feel that…

— Ronald Frame

Think of a book special to you, and how much bleaker and poorer your life would be if that one writer had not existed…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?

— Amy Purdy

I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little…

— James Lee Burke

Because of the wonderfully positive response to 'Life's That Way,' I am considering writing some more autobiographical stuff - maybe another book. I don't…

— Jim Beaver