Asking Quote by Robertson Davies

Look, anything any writer writes is going to be on some level autobiographical. Part of the funny/sad thing is that you don't always know…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no…

— Patrick deWitt

“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind…

— Yiyun Li

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

There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write -…

— Ian Anderson

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

— Terry McMillan

Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs…

— Diane Setterfield

All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same…

— John Banville

You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions.

— Paul Auster

“The principal theme of any autobiography revolves around the brushwork of self-transformation, the freeing of the self from the strictures of self-imposed limitations, fears,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“There’s an analogy I came up with once for an interviewer who asked me how much of my material was autobiographical,” Octavia says. “I…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

When you write something you know, you're making a story that will work, whether or not there's bits taken. It's always funny to me…

— Greta Gerwig