Autobiography Quote by Claud Cockburn

I'd never put much thought into writing an autobiography before, because while I have this public persona of being extremely confident, I also am…

— Perez Hilton

The problem with an autobiography is that all these extra factors make it difficult. You don't want to hurt people's feelings. You don't know…

— Richard Hell

There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.

— Pamela Stephenson

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

— George Eliot

You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.

— Ricky Hatton

“...in autobiography, as in all literature, what actually happened is less important than what the author can manage to persuade his audience to believe”

— Salman Rushdie

You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If…

— Abraham A. Ribicoff

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

In a novel there's not much autobiography. There are characters in transit. Naturally, I can project something of my experiences onto the characters, but…

— Dacia Maraini

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

— V. S. Naipaul

I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will,…

— John Saxon

“In a way, an autobiography seems to me like a household book of accounts – what has been acquired, to what purpose has it…

— Elizabeth Jane Howard