I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography. — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I had many doubts while writing my autobiography. I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested to read about my life. — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
“If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about… — Abraham A. Ribicoff Copy Share Image
Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY is ostensibly an autobiography but in truth it is much more than that. In this remarkably fine new… — Ronald Harwood Copy Share Image
“Is it not possible that the rage for confession, autobiography, especially for memories of earliest childhood, is explained by our persistent yet… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Writers’ never-ending quest involves investigating genuineness while carving out narrative nonfiction. They must strive to reach great truths by recounting untold lies… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty] One small autobiographical piece by Rorty bears the title 'Wild Orchids and Trotsky.'… — Jürgen Habermas Copy Share Image
“If I was building any new kind of life to live, it really didn't seem that way. It's not as if I… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I went to Hollywood. I put the action in Hollywood. I watched a lot of movies, maybe 100 or something close to… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
“Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. […] If the same… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
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