Autobiography Quotes

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

— Robert Pinsky

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.

— Clare Boothe Luce

Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.

— Pedro Almodovar

I think I do more fiction than autobiography.

— Martine Syms

“Monotony is the only reward of the cautious”

— A. Somebody

Gardens are a form of autobiography.

— Sydney Eddison

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

— Sidney Poitier

My 'Report to Greco' is not an autobiography.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

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

— Jim Butcher

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

— Rosanne Cash

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

— Richard Hell

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

— Nikola Tesla

“My limitless ability to weave time and space does not make me a god - just a da-n good writer.”

— Edmund Alexander Sims

This is the autobiography of the E, and if you ever fuck with me.

— NWA

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

— Jan Phillips

I can't ever think of writing a book or an autobiography. I'm a little private person.

— Randhir Kapoor

If everything in my career has to be made into an autobiography, then there will be people who might think that I…

— Himesh Reshammiya

I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out…

— Anonymous

I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her…

— Alexandra Roach

“It's the truth, though rarely admitted, that every autobiographical work has a touch of fiction and every fiction has a touch of…

— Santosh Kumar Das

I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be…

— Ringo Starr

In 1994, to motivate me to complete my pilot's license, my good friend, Gregg Maryniak, gave me Charles Lindbergh's autobiography of his…

— Peter Diamandis

I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen…

— George Seaton

My autobiography would be 'Loves music, loves art, works hard, writes music, tours the world, makes records.'

— Steven Wilson

Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription…

— Abraham Lincoln

Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of…

— V. S. Pritchett

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very…

— Kate Atkinson

My films have always had an element of immediate autobiography, in that I shoot any particular scene according to the mood I'm…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

“It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing leaf -anything that might lead…

— Bob Dylan

“This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and…

— Loung Ung

THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY is ostensibly an autobiography but in truth it is much more than that. In this remarkably fine new…

— Ronald Harwood

Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming…

— Stephen Covey

“The quality of any author’s effort at personal writing and thematic commentary hinges upon the author’s intrinsic limitations, personal vantage point, and…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“I understand and I know from experience that: 'The kingdom of God is within you.' Jesus has no need of books or…

— St. Therese of Lisieux

Cultures, when they meet, influence one another, whether people like it or not. But Americans don't have any way of describing this…

— Richard Rodriguez

“It's about personal development. It's about creating your own character and pushing it to the limit. It's about pushing yourself so far…

— Charlotte Eriksson

I always think about Katharine Graham - she was the publisher of The Washington Post. In her autobiography she talks about the…

— Owen Wilson

Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is…

— Robert Adams

Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what…

— Walter Benjamin

“Writing is a pitched battle with the elusive self, a contest that resultant celebratory jubilee demonstrates the writer’s innate capacity to meld…

— Kilroy J. Oldster