Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or…

I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

— James Frey

I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies. I did it as something that was really…

— Curtis Hanson

My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.

— Ginger Rogers

I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about societies that didn't have democracy.

— Chrystia Freeland

I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on…

— Tao Lin

Edward Conard’s book represents the most cogent and persuasive analysis of the Financial Crisis to date. It is deeper and likely more accurate than…

— Andrei Shleifer

biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.

— Linda Simon

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

I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as…

— Sloane Crosley

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

— Anonymous

I caught a cold and didn't have time to work on my autobiography.

— Julie Doucet

“As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir…

— Craig Briggs

“Someday, I want to write an unauthorized autobiography of myself.”

— David McMullen-Sullivan

“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind…

— Yiyun Li

I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

— Stephen Adly Guirgis