Autobiography Quote by Dorothy L. Sayers

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

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.

— John McEnroe

“This is not an autobiography. It is, rather, a kind of curriculum vitae — my attempt to show how one writer was formed. Not…

— Stephen King

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

— Richard Hell

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

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.

— Clare Boothe Luce

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

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

— John Berger

Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I always end…

— Alberto Moravia

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

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

— Clarence Darrow