Art Quote by Elizabeth Kenny

Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men…

— Thomas Carlyle

When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.

— Questlove

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 life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

— Anonymous

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and…

— Mark Twain

“One Reads to Experience Life, But one Writes to Live...”

— Kimberly Killion

There's something very reassuring... about the written record.

— John Updike

I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what…

— Henry David Thoreau

A memorie can tell one thing, but a life story tells another.

— Akila Sultana

Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

— Salman Rushdie

All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them!…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

— Samuel Goldwyn