Biographies Quote by Varley O'Connor

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

— William Golding

I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.

— Garth Greenwell

In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find…

— Robert Penn Warren

“People think because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Because a novel's invented, it is true. Biography and…

— Anthony Powell

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

— V. S. Naipaul

“Nonfiction is a form of literature that lies halfway between fiction and fact.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.”

— Mark Rubinstein

“A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.”

— Wally Lamb

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

— Paul Auster

Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that.

— Louis Auchincloss

“It's the truth, though rarely admitted, that every autobiographical work has a touch of fiction and every fiction has a touch of autobiography.”

— Santosh Kumar Das

“What you say, Nick, strengthens my contention that only a novel can imply certain truths impossible to state by exact definition. Biography and autobiography…

— Anthony Powell