Autobiography Quotes · Page 11

When I write my autobiography after 20-25 years, I want 2014 to be the weakest year of my life.

— Sajid Nadiadwala

There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies

— Jeanette Winterson

“Obama’s autobiography wasn’t due out until next month.”

— K.J. Emrick

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

— Federico Fellini

The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it.

— Marcel Duchamp

I caught a cold and didn't have time to work on my autobiography.

— Julie Doucet

I wish my BOOK OF LIFE was written in pencil,there are few pages I would like to erase,

— Anonymous

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

— Kate Fleetwood

Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up…

— Nicholas Delbanco

“My own [story] is the simplest ... it hardly amounts to more than a convincing proof of my existence - and yet…

— Julian Barnes

I always call 'Billy Elliot' a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of…

— Lee Hall

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.

— Erica Jong

I will read biographies or autobiographies while I'm writing, but mostly I put books in a to-read queue, like Rachel Cusk's new…

— David Duchovny

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

— Phyllis Rose

I think every artist's next work will reflect a new chapter in their autobiography. Each album tells a story about where they…

— G-Eazy

“The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are…

— Oscar Wilde

I had said before that I'd never write an autobiography because I've been around, and there's a lot that I've seen and…

— Dionne Warwick

Here is a quilted book about mathematical practice, each patch wonderfully prepared. Part invitation to number theory, part autobiography, part sociology of…

— Peter Galison

The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. There is a clear difference in tonality.…

— Paul Evdokimov

“Our best intentions are often thwarted by external forces - forces that we ourselves set in motion long ago. Decisions, especially bad…

— Andre Agassi

Literary lineage is part of your autobiography. The authors are the literary base, the image base, the character base that you bring…

— David Biespiel

Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a…

— Rupert Murdoch

I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable…

— Nick Hornby

According to Colonel Ely Garrison, in his autobiography and according to the United States Naval Secret Service Report on Paul Warburg, the…

— Eustace Mullins

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“The features of character are carved out of adversity.”

— Rick Barnett

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

— Beth Ditto

“I don't know which hurt more: his rejection, his punch, or my own elder siblings laughing at my pain.”

— Dorothy Hampton Marcus

“I try to be perfect but I'm not. I'm perfectly imperfect in every way.”

— James Weston

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

— Samuel Goldwyn

For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography

— Pablo Picasso

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give…

— Katherine Paterson

“Knowing that only minutes earlier I had walked to the car, my mom helped me out and stood me up in the…

— Sarah Todd Hammer

Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.

— Edward Gibbon

“If you don't invite God as a summer guest, he will not come in the winter of your life" said Lahiri Mahasaya”

— Sri Paramahansa Yogananda

I keep stacks of Autobiography of a Yogi around the house, and I give it out constantly to people. When people need…

— George Harrison

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and…

— Philip Roth

“better to keep a good conscience with an empty purse, than to get a bad opinion of myself, with a full one.”

— David Crockett

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their…

— Raymond Carver

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

— James Madison