Autobiography Quote by Doris Lessing

An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

— Doris Lessing

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

— Anonymous

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

— Sidney Poitier

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

— Clarence Darrow

One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles…

— Anonymous

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things…

— Alice Munro

Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.

— Lisel Mueller

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.

— Regina Spektor

People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.

— Andrea Arnold

“The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.”

— Elizabeth J. Andrew

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

— Mary J. Blige

“Everything was really a story, penned or thought or acted out at some time by someone.”

— Ted Dekker