Autobiography Quote by Yiyun Li

“The principal theme of any autobiography revolves around the brushwork of self-transformation, the freeing of the self from the strictures of self-imposed limitations, fears,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

All writers are autobiographical to a degree and writing about the nature of their inner life. My inner life has always been a struggle…

— Francis Levy

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and…

— John Grogan

“There’s a chasm between writing about yourself and writing about your personal life. A lot of young writers want to turn their lives into…

— Billy Marshall Stoneking

“I always wanted to be a writer, and I always wrote something – stories, poetry, articles, newsletters, letters. Most writers can't help themselves! It's…

— Marina Oliver

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

— Erno Paasilinna

There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write -…

— Ian Anderson

To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys…

— Robertson Davies

All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same…

— John Banville

Look, anything any writer writes is going to be on some level autobiographical. Part of the funny/sad thing is that you don't always know…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.

— Lisel Mueller

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I…

— Jeffrey Eugenides