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225 Autobiography quotes by 196 unique authors

Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself. — Paul Stanley
There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography. — Thomas Szasz
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. — Oscar Wilde
I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography. — Steven Wright
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque… — Martin Filler
The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth… — Groucho Marx
Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I… — Jeanette Winterson
Autobiography, if there really is such a thing, is like asking a rabbit to tell us what he looks like hopping through the grasses of… — Arthur Golden
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions."… — Oscar Wilde
This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and… — Benjamin Franklin
There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies — Jeanette Winterson
The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in… — Chuck Klosterman
All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction. — P.D. James
Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else. — Jim Butcher
What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we take into ourselves… — Francis Spufford
If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction. — Albert Camus
Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful. — Robert A. Heinlein
Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not… — Jimmy Buffett
Tell me about yourself, Miss Russel." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat autobiography, but some… — Laurie R. King
I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"… — Nick Hornby
I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted… — Nikola Tesla
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. — Robert Penn Warren
The way people move is their autobiography in motion. — Gerry Spence
I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information. — Diana Ross

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