Autobiography Quotes · Page 9

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

— Zach Braff

“Watching large mammals living their ordinary life in the jungle is extraordinary”

— Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes

“We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.”

— Oscar Wilde

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

— V. S. Naipaul

I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.

— Kate Fleetwood

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

— Beth Ditto

“The features of character are carved out of adversity.”

— Rick Barnett

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.

— Gunther Schuller

“Tell the Truth. Make it Special. Life’s a Beach. And then you Drown. Good Ideas cost no more than Bad Ones.”

— Justin Allison

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

— Anonymous

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

— Robert Penn Warren

I was 12. Our ,teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make…

— John Burnham Schwartz

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

— V. S. Naipaul

Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.

— Erica Jong

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

— Rick Springfield

Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of…

— V. S. Pritchett

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very…

— Kate Atkinson

Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Loung Ung

THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY is ostensibly an autobiography but in truth it is much more than that. In this remarkably fine new…

— Ronald Harwood

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

“It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing leaf -anything that might lead…

— Bob Dylan

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

— Walter Benjamin

For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography

— Pablo Picasso

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

— Samuel Goldwyn

“I try to be perfect but I'm not. I'm perfectly imperfect in every way.”

— James Weston

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

— Dorothy Hampton Marcus

Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.

— Robert A. Heinlein

People have asked me about doing an autobiography, but I don't think my life is that interesting.

— Steven Wilson

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

— Frederick Buechner

I wish my BOOK OF LIFE was written in pencil,there are few pages I would like to erase,

— Anonymous

I caught a cold and didn't have time to work on my autobiography.

— Julie Doucet

The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it.

— Marcel Duchamp

When I write my autobiography after 20-25 years, I want 2014 to be the weakest year of my life.

— Sajid Nadiadwala

There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies

— Jeanette Winterson

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

— Federico Fellini

“Obama’s autobiography wasn’t due out until next month.”

— K.J. Emrick

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