Autobiography Quote by William Trevor

There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

— Fay Weldon

“My answer is that if it be true that every novel contains an element of autobiography—and this can hardly be denied, since the creator…

— Joseph Conrad

The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.

— Paul Auster

Wrote the book on pain.

— Shinedown

One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles…

— Anonymous

“...if it be true that every novel contains an element of autobiography—and this can hardly be denied, since the creator can only express himself…

— Joseph Conrad

It's a presumptuous thing to write one's autobiography, but this is really an effort in the deepest sense to explore the struggle of a…

— Sterling Hayden

All autobiography is fiction.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

— Tom Robbins

I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

— Anonymous