Autobiography Quote by Clifton Fadiman

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

— Anonymous

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

— Clarence Darrow

I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject.

— Iris Origo

If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.

— H. G. Wells

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

— Fay Weldon

An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions.

— Claud Cockburn

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

— Anonymous

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.

— Cilla Black

there is no truly honest autobiography.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.

— V. S. Pritchett

Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.

— Robert A. Heinlein

I didn't want to sugarcoat anything. I wanted to make an honest story. Of course, to write a real autobiography, you've got to tell…

— Superstar Billy Graham