Autobiography Quotes

225 Autobiography quotes by 196 unique authors

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every… — Joan Collins
In fact Sarah Palin has created more jobs than Obama has. She created eleven jobs fact-checking at the AP just for the Palin autobiography. — Ann Coulter
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. — Quentin Crisp
I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as a… — Sloane Crosley
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. — Roald Dahl
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making. — Salvador Dali
I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school. — Junot Diaz
I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story. — Beth Ditto
Every artist writes his own autobiography. — Havelock Ellis
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. — Federico Fellini
I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left. — Stephen Hawking
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. — Henry A. Kissinger
A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does not the whole… — Lucy Larcom
After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems… — Taryn Manning
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. — V.S. Naipaul
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. — V.S. Naipaul
If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography. — P.J. O'Rourke
My autobiography was simply the story of my life. — Sidney Poitier
Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego. — Tom Robbins
When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs. — Will Rogers
Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own… — Eleanor Roosevelt
The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas… — Salman Rushdie
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. — John Ruskin
I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life,… — Marjane Satrapi
I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography. — Rick Springfield

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