Best 258 quotes in «autobiography quotes» category

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

Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

History is the autobiography of a madman.

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 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 believe there's only one autobiography you can do.

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

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

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.

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.

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 have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.

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

I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.

I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.

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

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

I was raised to farm work.

I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.

My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

Let's face it, it's only called Scrubs because I'm saving 'Zach Braff' for my autobiography.

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.

Often your face is your autobiography

Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

There's a lot of bullshit in Peter Fonda's autobiography. A great deal of it is complete fabrication.

[The public has] the habit now of invalidating opinions emanating from me by reference to my age and infirmities.

Photos are our autobiography, a way of telling who we are.

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

There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another novel.