Books Quote by Dan Makaon

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

— V. S. Naipaul

“An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing.”

— Quentin Crisp

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

— Quentin Crisp

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to contemplate his…

— Mary Antin

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

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

— Carlos Fuentes

“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

“Sometimes people have too much history together, history of the wrong kind, and people cannot tear pages from the book of their life. Once…

— Ryan David Jahn

What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?

— Ian Mckellen

“A person is a novel: you don't know how it will end until the very last page. Otherwise, it wouldn't be worth reading to…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“...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

“A person is like a novel: Up to the very last page you don't know how it's going to end. Otherwise, there'd be no…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin