Accurate Quote by Tao Lin

The problem with an autobiography is that all these extra factors make it difficult. You don't want to hurt people's feelings. You don't know…

— Richard Hell

I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your…

— Marjane Satrapi

In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of…

— Rohinton Mistry

All my works over the years have been autobiographical in the sense they reflect some part of my life, although I have fictionalised them…

— Ruskin Bond

Reality and fiction are really mixed up. The frontier between reality and fiction is tremendously porous and slippery. And in fact, when I remember…

— Rosa Montero

I think I do more fiction than autobiography.

— Martine Syms

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

— V. S. Naipaul

My books aren't autobiographical.

— Emily Giffin

Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up…

— Walter Benjamin

There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I…

— Isabel Allende

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

The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.

— Patricia Hampl