I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical. Janet Fitch
I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me. James Lee Burke
The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. Paul Auster
There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there. Donald Barthelme
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale. Harold Brodkey