I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They…

Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies.

— Steven Pinker

People once said they were "in" psychoanalysis, meaning they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their autobiographies.

— R Z Sheppard

Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned…

— Walt Whitman

Everybody used to be busy writing songs - great songs - that became hits. Now everybody's writing hits. Everybody's desperately writing a hit because…

— Nuno Bettencourt

I believe artists should be able to step into other people's situations, contexts and cultures and work from there. If artists don't have that…

— Uwem Akpan

Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to…

— Matthew McGrory

You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.

— Ricky Hatton

There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.

— Pamela Stephenson

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

— Diane Keaton

I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will,…

— John Saxon

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

— Stephen Hawking

I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be five volumes…

— Ringo Starr

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing,…

— Kate Atkinson

If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must…

— Nellie Melba

The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about in my…

— Siddharth Katragadda