Autobiography Quotes · Page 9

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

— Thomas Szasz

“One day someone is going to read my autobiography and say “Wow, what a horror novel”

— M.F. Moonzajer

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

— Diane Keaton

... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.

— Elizabeth Bowen

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.

— James Boswell

I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography.

— June Foray

When I bought out my first autobiography I received the biggest tax bill of my life.

— Simon Weston

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

— Anonymous

Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes…

— Lisel Mueller

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life,…

— Richard Hell

My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity--a good strong figure. But I think itis…

— James Boswell

A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography…

— Robert Dessaix

A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful…

— Fawn M. Brodie

The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a…

— Gilbert Highet

“Many great people had been considered to be boring, like Nigel Mansell, but anyone who had read the racing driver’s autobiography, "Clutch…

— Mark Jackman

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

— Deborah Kerr

“An author’s operating charter is to unearth embedded symbols that reflect complementary and inconsistent relationships of our collective assemblage, combine harmonizing and…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

President Obama admitted this week that a former girlfriend that he wrote about in his autobiography was made up and not a…

— Jay Leno

“Every American autobiography, someone once said, is about one thing—escape. Look into the frightened heart of an American life, and you’ll find…

— Frederick Weisel

This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they…

— Benjamin Franklin

I was roommates with 2 of the guys who were influential in forming the Black Arts philosophy. I called them "goons," and…

— Ishmael Reed

When I was first approached about doing an autobiography, I said, 'absolutely not.' But when I sat down, memories came pouring out.…

— Julia Cameron

Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of…

— Martin Filler

I do like a good mystery. I'm reading Edgar Allan Poe now. I also like autobiographies.

— James Van Praagh

“His autobiography is Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster.”

— Gareth Huw Davies

Frankly, I would never like to write an autobiography because my life is an open book.

— Sudha Chandran

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

— Joseph Barbera

The book Since the publication of my autobiography which was featured till today are moist

— Mak_786

“Thos who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.”

— Stephen Fry

I've been asked to write my autobiography, but I've not been interested.

— Shaun Ryder

Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.

— Myrtle Reed

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

— George Bernard Shaw

“No Man lives who has not seen some of his prayers granted.”

— Sri Paramahansa Yogananda

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I really didn't talk about my sexuality until I wrote my autobiography.

— Tab Hunter

I read Gloria Swanson's autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time.

— Berenice Bejo

The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

— Agatha Christie

I would be happy presenting our albums as part of a joint autobiography.

— Ron Mael

If you believe the past can't be changed, you haven't read a celebrity's autobiography.

— Sam Ewing