Autobiography Quotes

225 quotes by 200 authors

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but… — Kate Atkinson
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. — John Berger
'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music. — Mary J. Blige
Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to… — Nicholas Delbanco
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives. — Marilyn Ferguson
Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself. — Robert Breault
I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart,… — Philip Roth
Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price. — Nikola Tesla
But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other… — Nikola Tesla
When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots. — Nikola Tesla
A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results. — Nikola Tesla
My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made. — Nikola Tesla
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. — Evelyn Waugh
Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the… — Linda Grant
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
On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it. — Paul Murray Kendall
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply… — Oscar Wilde
Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its rewards were greater… — Dick Francis
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity. — Bernard Berenson

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