Everyone Quote by Rumaan Alam

“Narratives about certain experiences are somehow legitimized when mediated through a man’s perspective. Consider the work of John Updike or Richard Yates. Most of…

— Roxane Gay

There are so many stories that need to be told and are not being told. We tend to want to put things in boxes:…

— Haroon Moghul

All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.

— Anonymous

All autobiography is fiction.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are…

— Jo Nesbo

“We all fictionalize ourselves in the process of creating a story out of the raw materials of our life. For some it is a…

— Neil McCormick

Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an…

— William Golding

I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal.

— Kwame Dawes

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

— J. M. Coetzee

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

— James Joyce

There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog - and…

— Paul Auster

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

— Monica Johnson