An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
'Off With Their Heads' by Frances Marion. I love a showbusiness autobiography - and this one resonates because it's written by one… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Whenever I see an autobiography for sale in the book store i just flip to the about the author section. I'm like,… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
I wasn't allowed to use people's real names, such as my siblings and my children's father, but there's nothing fabricated or untrue… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography. — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
I love to read autobiographies. [What is your favorite autobiography?] the autobiography of Coach John Wooden. Everybody has a struggle so it's… — Meb Keflezighi Copy Share Image
You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
The difference between America and England is that the English think 100 miles is a long distance and the Americans think 100… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Despite the natural belittling of one's self, the doubts, the insecurities, we have to wake up to the realisation that we all… — Yossi Ghinsberg Copy Share Image
When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Johnny Ramone's autobiography is a no holds barred, straight-forward book written in a no-nonsense style that is Johnny personified. His story is… — Tommy Ramone Copy Share Image
A memoir is not an autobiography. It's a true story told as a novel, using techniques of novelization. The author is allowed… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
Let me put it in a positive light, with that archive [of Anne Romaine], we have gained extensive knowledge about how [Alex]… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
“But as much as I'll own my flaws, ultimately, I know that I'm a good person. I can see now that you… — Britney Spears Copy Share Image
So many people had been asking me to write an autobiography, or threatening to write my biography without any input from me,… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
In fact Sarah Palin has created more jobs than Obama has. She created eleven jobs fact-checking at the AP just for the… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“...in autobiography, as in all literature, what actually happened is less important than what the author can manage to persuade his audience… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Let your autobiography contain these words; "I was able to think positively, love affectionately and work efficiently". Thinking, loving and working are… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
At Arcueil ... I dined in distinguished company... There was a lot of very interesting discussion. It is these gatherings which are… — Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac Copy Share Image
If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
“My father says he doesn't like hawks because they swoop down on mice and other defenseless desert creatures. He can't stand the… — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Siamese twins are interesting because they are the only people who can write a biography and an autobiography at the same time. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
“I really was never any more than what I was -a folk musician who gazed into the gray mist with tear-blinded eyes… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“I didn't find my story; it found me, as autobiography always does: finds you out in your deepest most private places.” — Kelly Cherry Copy Share Image
I didn't want to sugarcoat anything. I wanted to make an honest story. Of course, to write a real autobiography, you've got… — Superstar Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I don’t feel pressure … I don’t give a toss about it. I spent the afternoon of Sunday, 9 July, 2006 in… — Andrea Pirlo Copy Share Image
There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own.… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
A novel, especially a first novel, is... really an emotional autobiography. All these emotions I'm embarrassed at having had, I've written about. — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer. — Linda Simon Copy Share Image
Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In novels and autobiographies, the first positive move that the immigrant makes towards assimilation is to buy himself a suit of city… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
They asked me what I wanted to call my autobiography. I suggested: The Definitive Volume on the Finest Bloody Fast Bowler That… — Fred Trueman Copy Share Image
If you publish Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography, no one will read it but if it's Madhuri Dixit's or Madhubala's autobiography people will come… — Asrani Copy Share Image
If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read… — Anonymous Copy Share Image