Autobiographies Quotes

27 quotes by 26 authors

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives. — Marilyn Ferguson
The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to show off. — T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential… — Dan Rather
I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me. — Elizabeth Taylor
The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them… — Harold Acton
I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I… — George Seaton
It would just be a pamphlet. Three pages. The first page would be Drugs I Have Taken and then a list. The next page would… — Ryan Jarman
Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies and have no… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really… — Megan Martha White
Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be… — Matthew McGrory
In novels and autobiographies, the first positive move that the immigrant makes towards assimilation is to buy himself a suit of city clothes. — Jonathan Raban
Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies. — Steven Pinker
I love memoirs and autobiographies in general. — Brett Davern
Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an… — Gary Kemp
Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies. — Gelett Burgess
The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies. — T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies. — Elia Kazan
Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works.… — Criss Jami
Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction . — A. S. Byatt
There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another novel. — John Dos Passos

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