Autobiography Quote by Fay Weldon

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

— Clarence Darrow

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

— Tom Robbins

biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.

— Linda Simon

“The principal theme of any autobiography revolves around the brushwork of self-transformation, the freeing of the self from the strictures of self-imposed limitations, fears,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

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

To write an autobiography, you've got to expose other people. I hope to get out of this world as gracefully as possible, without embarrassing…

— Cary Grant

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

It's very important to me I get my autobiography out before I die and someone else writes it and screws up my life.

— Rob Van Dam

The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.

— Patricia Hampl

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

Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.

— Tom Stoppard

There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your…

— Jeanette Winterson