Best 258 quotes in «autobiography quotes» category

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

All autobiography is fiction.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

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 usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

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

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

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

An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

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.

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.

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

[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.

Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

History is the autobiography of a madman.

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

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

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

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 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.

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 a children's book already out and my autobiography.

I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.

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

I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.

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.

I was raised to farm work.

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

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

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.