Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction . — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told. — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
“How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?” — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing.” — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“Everyone's life is an autobiography...make yours worth reading” — Origin but modified by Sam Thiara Copy Share Image
I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I don't think Trump reads. If he does, my guess is he's reading autobiographies of ... I wonder if he's read Mein Kampf. — Eric Walters Copy Share Image
I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work. — Jeffrey Brown Copy Share Image
Where's the mileage in an autobiography? Anyone who writes one inevitably casts themselves as a hero, and I'm not about to do… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to… — William Golding Copy Share Image
What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography. — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I don't think anyone could write a completely honest autobiography. I am sure no one could bear to read it: My Past… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
“One other thing—she was always armed. Ossie May talked about her gun even more than she bragged about her cooking. Out of… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
A reflection of my feelings about the space program is found in a quotation from Charles A. Lindbergh's "Autobiography of Values." It… — Robert Wise Copy Share Image
Yes, I have two books that are about me: one of them I wrote, and the other one was written about me.… — Eve Bunting Copy Share Image
I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
The F.B.I. was very happy with the article they produced, which was entitled, "The Black Merchants of Hate," that came out in… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
Because I didn't go to film school, I had a collection of books that were inspiring or taught me how to make… — Alex Stapleton Copy Share Image
I believe that if we could see the chapters that are missing from the book [The Autobiography of Malcolm X], we would… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“efore the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation series of books began to appear in 1979, the scientific autobiography was a largely unfamiliar genre.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This person is (pick one): 1. on a perilous journey from which we can learn much when he or she returns; 2.… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
For better or worse, I seem to gravitate toward writing about something or someone else, then have my own self shove its… — Lucas Mann Copy Share Image
“On Sunday evenings, there was a comparatively vast array of radio shows from which to choose. Frequently I would lie in my… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. — John Berger Copy Share Image
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've read 'Autobiography of a Yogi' at different ages and interpret something new each time. — Shriya Saran Copy Share Image
“Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
There's a lot of bullshit in Peter Fonda's autobiography. A great deal of it is complete fabrication. — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
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