Autobiography Quote by Albert Murray

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

— V. S. Naipaul

“Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.”

— Anonymous

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

— Philip Guedalla

When you write an autobiography, it has to be authentic.

— Zeenat Aman

I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your…

— Marjane Satrapi

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

— Clarence Darrow

An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions.

— Claud Cockburn

As a storyteller, you have the story that you tell, and you have the way you can tell it, and both are equally important.

— Noah Hawley

It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to…

— Philip Roth

I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

“The way a story is told is as important as the story being told, although the way that the story is told is usually…

— Neil Gaiman

Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a…

— Jonathan Swift