Autobiographical Quote by Terry McMillan

As a gay writer and someone who began by writing autobiographical fiction, it's hard to get away from chatter of "You're just a narcissist,"…

— Douglas A. Martin

Because of the wonderfully positive response to 'Life's That Way,' I am considering writing some more autobiographical stuff - maybe another book. I don't…

— Jim Beaver

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

— Mark Strand

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is…

— Ben Marcus

I think it's time to admit that our writing is guided by the technology we use as much as it is by our own…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

Despite the ever-increasing financial pressures experienced by writers and the ever-decreasing space afforded by the media to books, writers are still willing to aim…

— Amanda Foreman

Good actors can do anything, and there'll be amazing writers who are willing to write for everyone.

— Jonathan Bailey

In fact, writing, especially writing autobiographical works, and this is actually the fourth time I've done it, each time I've done it I've felt…

— Paul Auster

“Readers," continued Miss Winter, "are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The…

— Diane Setterfield

First of all, all writing includes some part of the self. The relationship of the self and the other exists in writing, whether autobiographical…

— Nawal El Saadawi

I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use my memory…

— Sefi Atta

Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs…

— Diane Setterfield