About yourself Quote by Steve Toltz

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

People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.

— Andrea Arnold

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I just use…

— Bill Bryson

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at…

— Josh Radnor

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

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

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

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which…

— Shirley Jackson

I think what makes you feel so connected with certain writers isn't a matter of autobiographical detail, but that the emotions are real. The…

— Chris Kraus

Sometimes I've drawn on autobiographical material, maybe situations that I've felt trapped by, and turned them into something else, but in a very superficial…

— William Wegman

People have told me that everything about me, every facet of my life, psyche, experiences, dreams, and fears, are laid out explicitly in my…

— Philip K. Dick