A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. — Philip Guedalla Copy Share Image
I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject. — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
There's a lot of bullshit in Peter Fonda's autobiography. A great deal of it is complete fabrication. — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
“Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think Trump reads. If he does, my guess is he's reading autobiographies of ... I wonder if he's read Mein Kampf. — Eric Walters Copy Share Image
autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography. — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Knowing that only minutes earlier I had walked to the car, my mom helped me out and stood me up in the… — Sarah Todd Hammer Copy Share Image
“If you don't invite God as a summer guest, he will not come in the winter of your life" said Lahiri Mahasaya” — Sri Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Autobiography is the most fascinating thing you can do because you get to touch the human condition. And in the end, what… — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
I'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. I know nothing at all (I'm happy to say) about having had… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t living on the edge, I had gone over it. Insanity was now the norm and I had to keep feeding… — Steven C. Smith Copy Share Image
Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
When you first start off, I know singers who have only been in the business just a short amount of time, and… — Tom Jones Copy Share Image
“A shaman and a writer each serve as their communities’ seers by engaging in extraordinary acts of conscientious study of the past… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. […] If the same… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
I went to Hollywood. I put the action in Hollywood. I watched a lot of movies, maybe 100 or something close to… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It's about personal development. It's about creating your own character and pushing it to the limit. It's about pushing yourself so far… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I always think about Katharine Graham - she was the publisher of The Washington Post. In her autobiography she talks about the… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
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