Autobiography Quote by Dacia Maraini

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

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

In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find…

— Robert Penn Warren

All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same…

— John Banville

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

“The principal theme of any autobiography revolves around the brushwork of self-transformation, the freeing of the self from the strictures of self-imposed limitations, fears,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

— Tom Robbins

An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity…

— Graham Greene

The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.

— Patricia Hampl

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

— Clarence Darrow

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

— Fay Weldon

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…

— Marjane Satrapi