Behinds Quote by Rob Roberge

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

— David Leavitt

It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are…

— Margaret Atwood

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

— Maya Angelou

In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of…

— Rohinton Mistry

Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much…

— Edwidge Danticat

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes,…

— Jodi Picoult

The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.

— Paul Auster

If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up.

— John Dufresne

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

— Mark Strand

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we…

— Azar Nafisi

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

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you…

— Megan McCafferty