Asking Quote by Arthur Golden

One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles…

— Anonymous

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

— Clarence Darrow

A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does not the…

— Lucy Larcom

I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will,…

— John Saxon

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.

— Clare Boothe Luce

In a novel there's not much autobiography. There are characters in transit. Naturally, I can project something of my experiences onto the characters, but…

— Dacia Maraini

When you write something you know, you're making a story that will work, whether or not there's bits taken. It's always funny to me…

— Greta Gerwig

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too…

— Boris Becker

I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.

— Garth Greenwell

“In a way, an autobiography seems to me like a household book of accounts – what has been acquired, to what purpose has it…

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

— Anonymous

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on…

— Clint Eastwood