Best 258 quotes in «autobiography quotes» category

Years ago, there were tribes that roamed the earth, and every tribe had a magic person. Well, now, as you know, all the tribes have dispersed, but every so often you meet a magic person, and every so often, you meet someone from your tribe.

YOU AND YOU ALONE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN HAPPINESS, NOT ANYONE ELSE

You are not yourself in autobiography. It is never going to be you, it is only words on a page. Memories are unreliable, so adding the magic of imagination will make your story come alive.

You never know what’s lurking in the bloodstream, or skulking under the foreskin, or squatting in the liver, or flitting hither and thither from branch to branch in the bronchial forest.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

After my stroke I put down much of the luggage of my life. I didn't have to prove anything anymore - in business, in my personal life or whatever. And now, as I work on my autobiography, I enjoy looking back, seeing the connections, the causes and effects of my life.

All autobiography is fiction.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.

an autobiography held out the promise of hearing truths that only friends confess to one another but are knowledge you need to live.

A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.

An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.

Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two.

Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.

Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.

biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else.

Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.

I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

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.

History is the autobiography of a madman.

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.

If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don't do that, I've hamstrung the melody.

I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.

I do like a good mystery. I'm reading Edgar Allan Poe now. I also like autobiographies.

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it exaggerated.

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

I was raised to farm work.

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

I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.

I read Gloria Swanson's autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time.

I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.

I love to read autobiographies. [What is your favorite autobiography?] the autobiography of Coach John Wooden. Everybody has a struggle so it's about seeing how they overcome it and be the best they can.

I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.

I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.

I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what I call a mans man.

I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.