Failure Quote by Rodney Crowell

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

Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I always end…

— Alberto Moravia

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

More than anything, I write about what I know. The experiences that I've had in my life and that we've all had collectively, that's…

— Andy Biersack

Anything I write is going to be autobiographical and true to some degree.

— Shooter Jennings

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

Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write what we…

— Andre Dubus

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

The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman worked familiar…

— Debra Dean

Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix.

— Frankie Cosmos

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things…

— Alice Munro

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

— David Leavitt