I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself. — Rollie Fingers Copy Share Image
What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great. — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life. — Ranbir Kapoor Copy Share Image
All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am opposed to autobiographies, mainly because most autobiographies lie. — Kamal Haasan Copy Share Image
I always felt ,like, I'll leave autobiographies to the people who are kind of iconic. — Michelle Visage Copy Share Image
“Aren’t autobiographies born in a question we ask ourselves: how did I get to this point? Don’t we look back over the… — Frederick Weisel Copy Share Image
“It's so embarrassing to think that someone is actually interested in what you're thinking. And in that regard, it's almost unbelievable that… — Oddný Eir Copy Share Image
I can't stand these autobiographies that start with, you know, 'I was born in Acton, and I went to such and such… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
I am a very honest, open person and I think there is a tendency in celebrity autobiographies to gloss over certain things… — Les Dennis Copy Share Image
'Walking and Talking' is my autobiography. It's best to do it that way, rather than spend months writing a book that then… — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
When I do read, it tends to be serious books like autobiographies and if I've met a famous person, I'll read up… — Graeme Souness Copy Share Image
I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to… — Eddie Trunk Copy Share Image
“We all write our autobiographies long before we live our lives. Sure, we make some edits and revisions along the way, but… — Tim Chaddick Copy Share Image
“Autobiographies are always written as if the author had it all mapped out with perfect foresight, ignoring the risks and uncertainties at… — Raghuram G. Rajan Copy Share Image
I feel autobiographies should be written when you're retiring and there's so much to talk about as you've been working for so… — Asha Parekh Copy Share Image
Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always… — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I was in a… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
“Autobiographies are always written as if the author had it all mapped out with perfect foresight, ignoring the risks and uncertainties at… — Raghuram G. Rajan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters… — Criss Jami 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
“I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12. — Michael Tubbs Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Autobiographies give you the picture of the person behind the image on screen, because that's never really you. — Deepti Naval Copy Share Image
Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction . — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself. — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
“I watched a lot of drunk players, too, I learned from the autobiographies published after they had retired.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image