Autobiography Quotes

225 Autobiography quotes by 196 unique authors

One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which, because it is… — Roger Rosenblatt
One of the more fatuous remarks I've heard in recent days is that 'My Life,' Clinton's autobiography, is too long and, at almost 1,000 pages,… — Alastair Campbell
One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead. — Joseph Barbera
I love memoirs and autobiographies in general. — Brett Davern
Save it for my unauthorized autobiography. — Larry Wall
My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process. — Mia Farrow
An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end. — Richard Hell
My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives. — Diane Keaton
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
Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could… — Jane Smiley
I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them. — Kate Fleetwood
Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies. — Gelett Burgess
The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level. — David Brooks
This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass… — Mark Twain
Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography. — Erica Jong
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
A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one’s personal history and that of one’s friends, interwoven with one’s tastes, preferences and character and constitutes… — Alfred Austin
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
Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must… — Alfred North Whitehead
To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx. — Groucho Marx
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. — Samuel Goldwyn
You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself… — Ellie Goulding

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