I've written a lot of autobiography, which also involved listening. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
People have asked me about doing an autobiography, but I don't think my life is that interesting. — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
I wish my BOOK OF LIFE was written in pencil,there are few pages I would like to erase, — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
“An autobiography is inherently incomplete unless the last page is written on the eve of the author's demise.” — Dan Makaon Copy Share Image
“When things go really wrong just imagine how interesting it will be as a chapter in your autobiography.” — Gary Edward Gedall Copy Share Image
I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an… — Paul Murray Kendall Copy Share Image
Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you? — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw… — Boy George Copy Share Image
Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't… — Matthew McGrory Copy Share Image
I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect,… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a most curious experience for a man of seventy-two to be confronted with the greenhorn enthusiasms of his youth. Young… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“I think I was about twenty-five when I first said - more or less to myself - that I was quite a… — John Pudney Copy Share Image
Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Writing is an exhausting and demoralizing task that destroys human conceits. Writing an elongated series of personal essay opens a person’s mind… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The womb of the world births us. My filth comes from the same earthwork that gives rise to all stories. My interior… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
“A person’s life is a bounded thing that must end. We will leave this earth with unfinished business. Regardless of the outcome… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a… — Janet Malcolm 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
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
