Autobiography Quotes · Page 7

Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies.

— Elia Kazan

The Too Short albums are not the autobiography of Todd Shaw.

— Too Short

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

— Quentin Crisp

“One day someone is going to read my autobiography and say “Wow, what a horror novel”

— M.F. Moonzajer

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

— Diane Keaton

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

— Thomas Szasz

When I bought out my first autobiography I received the biggest tax bill of my life.

— Simon Weston

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.

— James Boswell

“The Grim Reaper isn't grim at all; he's a life-saver. He isn't grim because he isn't anything. . . . he is…

— Jack Kerouac Atop an Underwood Early Stories and Other Writings

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

— Siddharth Katragadda

“Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding.”

— Meghan Lamb

If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism…

— Frederick Lenz

I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.

— Garth Greenwell

Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought…

— Doris Lessing

I was going to write an autobiography once. I started writing it, and then I thought, 'No, let them dig around when…

— Jeff Beck

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have…

— Abraham Lincoln

[Cindy Sherman's] photographs reverse the terms of art and autobiography. They use art not to reveal the artist's true self but to…

— Douglas Crimp

Autobiography, if there really is such a thing, is like asking a rabbit to tell us what he looks like hopping through…

— Arthur Golden

Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together…

— Christopher Buckley

I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for…

— Nikola Tesla

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

— John Saxon

In [Yogananda's] celebrated Autobiography of a Yogi, he offers a stunning account of the 'cosmic consciousness' reached on the upper levels of…

— Robert S Ellwood

I you're writing memoir, but it even comes up in fiction. People just assume that you're writing thinly veiled autobiography. And particularly,…

— Faith Adiele

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to…

— Mary Antin

“I understand and I know from experience that: 'The kingdom of God is within you.' Jesus has no need of books or…

— St. Therese of Lisieux

“I've already spent ten years of my life apologizing for that band. As their manager, that's all I really did. Apologize. For…

— Motley Crue

“Autobiographical writing stands as lasting memorial for enduring the travails of an earthly life. Writing is an apt technique to score our…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

The life of each and every one of us has been written. The crucifix is my autobiography. The blood is the ink.…

— Fulton J. Sheen

The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all…

— Richard Lewontin

“But you can't fault me on my footnotes. I've worked hard on them and they look pretty impressive. And almost all the…

— Jeffrey L. Staley

“Writing is a pitched battle with the elusive self, a contest that resultant celebratory jubilee demonstrates the writer’s innate capacity to meld…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I always think about Katharine Graham - she was the publisher of The Washington Post. In her autobiography she talks about the…

— Owen Wilson

I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography.

— June Foray

... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“His autobiography is Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster.”

— Gareth Huw Davies

Frankly, I would never like to write an autobiography because my life is an open book.

— Sudha Chandran

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

— Joseph Barbera

I do like a good mystery. I'm reading Edgar Allan Poe now. I also like autobiographies.

— James Van Praagh

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

— Anonymous

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

— Stephen Hawking