Autobiography Quotes · Page 10

“Do you consider yourself a blessing or just another person?”

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

“The memoirs of call girls are much in demand these days - a millennial craze.”

— Dimitra Ekmektsis

I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.

— Richard Simmons

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

— Oscar Wilde

I thought it would be more interesting to make a musical autobiography than an actual autobiography.

— Ian Brown

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

— Nina Bawden

Novelists are too often assumed to write veiled autobiography.

— Lionel Shriver

The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies.

— T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring…

— Roald Dahl

Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its…

— Dick Francis

Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted…

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

— Kola Boof

I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

— James Frey

UCLA acknowledged this shift by bringing in Alex Haley (the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X) and Eldridge Cleaver (Soul on…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

To write an autobiography, you've got to expose other people. I hope to get out of this world as gracefully as possible,…

— Cary Grant

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of…

— Jonathan Lethem

When you first start off, I know singers who have only been in the business just a short amount of time, and…

— Tom Jones

Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before…

— Virginia Woolf

A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are…

— Erwin Chargaff

“I recall the words of Charles Darwin in his Autobiography. ‘I rejoice that I have avoided controversies, and this I owe to…

— Richard Fortey

Look, I really do not care about you. What I care about is the worlds that you bear witness to. You are…

— Michael Lesy

Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened…

— W. P. Kinsella

A home should be an intimate autobiography of the things that you like. One of the things I'm so keen on expressing…

— Alexandra Stoddard

“[His research into biblical criticism had lead him to the conclusion that most of what was contained in traditional religion simply wasn't…

— Felix Adler

I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself.

— Rollie Fingers

The human face is the subtle yet visual autobiography of each person,

— John O'Donohue

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

— V. S. Naipaul

“Watching large mammals living their ordinary life in the jungle is extraordinary”

— Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes

“We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Zach Braff

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

— Tom Robbins

“Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography entitled The Story of My Experiments with Truth.”

— Robin S. Sharma

“There is no theory that is not a fragment, carefully prepared, of some autobiography.”

— Paul Valery

“Let us make sure that future generation writes our biography.”

— Amit Kalantri

What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.

— Miles Franklin

“I don't need no Smith and Wesson, man, I got Merriam and Webster.”

— Avi Steinberg

“I could hear my abandoned dreams making a racket in my soul.”

— Joy Harjo

People have asked me about doing an autobiography, but I don't think my life is that interesting.

— Steven Wilson

I've written a lot of autobiography, which also involved listening.

— Frederick Buechner

Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.

— Robert A. Heinlein