“I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.”
Philip Roth
“A mans face is his autobiography. A women's face is her work of fiction.”
Oscar Wilde
“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
“Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.”
Katherine Paterson
“There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.”
William Trevor
“Gardens are a form of autobiography.”
Sydney Eddison
“I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.”
Stephen Wright
