An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography. — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
“One day someone is going to read my autobiography and say “Wow, what a horror novel” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives. — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography. — June Foray Copy Share Image
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
People once said they were "in" psychoanalysis, meaning they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their… — R Z Sheppard Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I think that today's books, in which every quote, every conversation, is taken from a memoir, an autobiography, an interview, or what-have-you,… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without… — Boris Becker Copy Share Image
“Happy 3rd anniversary Navigating Life's Roadways! This book is a charge and blessing from above. Writing it has been on my radar… — Deborah L. Parker Copy Share Image
Sometimes, with autobiographies, it turns into a bit of score-settling. And looking back, I don't feel the way I did then, and… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one’s personal history and that of one’s friends, interwoven with one’s tastes, preferences… — Alfred Austin 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
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
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
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
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
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
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When I bought out my first autobiography I received the biggest tax bill of my life. — Simon Weston Copy Share Image
I do like a good mystery. I'm reading Edgar Allan Poe now. I also like autobiographies. — James Van Praagh Copy Share Image
Frankly, I would never like to write an autobiography because my life is an open book. — Sudha Chandran Copy Share Image
One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead. — Joseph Barbera Copy Share Image
My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I had many doubts while writing my autobiography. I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested to read about my life. — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
“If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Tell the Truth. Make it Special. Life’s a Beach. And then you Drown. Good Ideas cost no more than Bad Ones.” — Justin Allison Copy Share Image
Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
When I was writing my autobiography, these songs came up from time to time which were important to me, and I realized… — Greg Lake Copy Share Image
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