Autobiography Quotes · Page 9

At Arcueil ... I dined in distinguished company... There was a lot of very interesting discussion. It is these gatherings which are…

— Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

When my relations with the Communist Party gave me the necessary perspective I decided to write my autobiography. I wanted to show…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw…

— Boy George

“I can claim copyright only in myself, and occasionally in those who are either dead or have written about the same events,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human…

— Harry Kroto

The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one…

— Salman Rushdie

“I don't know which hurt more: his rejection, his punch, or my own elder siblings laughing at my pain.”

— Dorothy Hampton Marcus

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

— Tao Lin

I love to read autobiographies. [What is your favorite autobiography?] the autobiography of Coach John Wooden. Everybody has a struggle so it's…

— Meb Keflezighi

I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.

— Mark Twain

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

— Tom Stoppard

If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an…

— Albert Camus

I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife.…

— Cleveland Amory

I will read biographies or autobiographies while I'm writing, but mostly I put books in a to-read queue, like Rachel Cusk's new…

— David Duchovny

Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what…

— Walter Benjamin

I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about…

— Gunter Grass

“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

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

— Pablo Picasso

Johnny Ramone's autobiography is a no holds barred, straight-forward book written in a no-nonsense style that is Johnny personified. His story is…

— Tommy Ramone

“This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and…

— Loung Ung

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

I've written a lot of autobiography, which also involved listening.

— Frederick Buechner

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

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Memoirs are often about difficult things in a person's life. In my situation, my story starts with about the stupidest, most immoral…

— Piper Kerman

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

— Clarence Darrow