When you write an autobiography, it has to be authentic.

I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as a memoir. They're essays; they're not an autobiography.

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

Novelists are too often assumed to write veiled autobiography.

A novel, especially a first novel, is... really an emotional autobiography. All these emotions I'm embarrassed at having had, I've written about.

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

In his new autobiography, 'Capital Gaines,' Chip talks about the farm work - and he says he does, in fact, do it himself.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' - you are inhabiting that 'I.'

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.

I really didn't talk about my sexuality until I wrote my autobiography.

A book is either autobiography or a novel.

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.

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