Autobiography Quote by William Golding

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

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

— Roald Dahl

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'

— Joyce Carol Oates

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always…

— Rachel Holmes

All autobiography is fiction.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

— Peter Ackroyd

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

— V. S. Naipaul

I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

— V. S. Naipaul

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

— William Golding

In a novel there's not much autobiography. There are characters in transit. Naturally, I can project something of my experiences onto the characters, but…

— Dacia Maraini

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

— Mark Twain