Books Quote by Salman Rushdie

“...if it be true that every novel contains an element of autobiography—and this can hardly be denied, since the creator can only express himself…

— Joseph Conrad

“My answer is that if it be true that every novel contains an element of autobiography—and this can hardly be denied, since the creator…

— Joseph Conrad

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

— Clarence Darrow

It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to…

— Philip Roth

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

— V. S. Naipaul

“Everyone had a story he believed was worthy of a best-seller; for me, reality was rarely interesting enough to take the place of fiction.”

— Ben Mezrich

“Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.”

— Anonymous

“An autobiography is inherently incomplete unless the last page is written on the eve of the author's demise.”

— Dan Makaon

“What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book?”

— Julian Barnes

An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions.

— Claud Cockburn

“The beauty of fiction is it need not be factual and the writer's imagination can travel as far from reality as he or she…

— Sheldon Friedman

Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements.…

— Jeanette Winterson