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I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what… — Cleveland Amory
I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves! — Kajol
I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more… — Pat Morita
The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by the… — Gilbert Highet
I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in… — Gunter Grass
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter. — Bernard Malamud
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was… — Jeffrey Bernard
In reviewing my life, in tracing its course, I fill my cell with the pleasure of being what for want of a trifle I failed… — Jean Genet
Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and… — Rupert Murdoch
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. — Carlos Fuentes
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
The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography, 'Why Not… — Jonathan Raban
Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So… — W. P. Kinsella
I have a children's book already out and my autobiography. — Della Reese
My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the… — Ving Rhames
I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with… — Courtney Thorne Smith
It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out… — Robert Penn Warren
Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical. — Lisel Mueller
Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies. — Steven Pinker
I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I go. I'm paying… — Ken Livingstone
There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my… — William Trevor
To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to make time for… — Ned Rorem
When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem… — Georges Bernanos

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