Autobiography Quote by Fawn M. Brodie

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

— George Santayana

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying,…

— George Orwell

to look back on one's life is to experience the capriciousness of memory. ... the past is not static. It can be relived only…

— P. D. James

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

— Anonymous

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

— George Eliot

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

— Clarence Darrow

Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up…

— Walter Benjamin

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

— V. S. Naipaul

“I'll tell you this much. Men think memories are like murals or statues or truth or whatever happened, never changes none. But that ain't…

— Jeff Salyards

I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on…

— Tao Lin

Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up…

— Walter Benjamin

What is a man but another man's memory

— Addison Killebrew