Autobiography Quotes · Page 18

The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies.

— T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

Let's face it, it's only called Scrubs because I'm saving 'Zach Braff' for my autobiography.

— Zach Braff

I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're…

— Laura Z. Hobson

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

— Quentin Crisp

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

— David Antin

Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible.

— John Grigg

My films have always had an element of immediate autobiography, in that I shoot any particular scene according to the mood I'm…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

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

— Steven Pinker

A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.

— Nina Bawden

Every ist writes his own autobiography.

— Havelock Ellis

Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.

— Robert Breault

Whenever I see an autobiography for sale in the book store i just flip to the about the author section. I'm like,…

— Demetri Martin

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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 autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

— H. L. Mencken

“Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education.”

— Liza Mundy

One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond…

— Theodor Haecker

I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

— Abraham Lincoln

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

— Richard Hell

“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

If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told.

— Albert Murray

I always call 'Billy Elliot' a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of…

— Lee Hall

It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it…

— John Dominic Crossan

“You never know what’s lurking in the bloodstream, or skulking under the foreskin, or squatting in the liver, or flitting hither and…

— Ian Martin

Many candidates use a political autobiography to sell their candidacy.

— Ari Melber