Autobiography Quote by George Eliot

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

— Fay Weldon

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to contemplate his…

— Mary Antin

I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I…

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— V. S. Naipaul

An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity…

— Graham Greene

An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions.

— Claud Cockburn

“Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.”

— Anonymous

A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is…

— Fawn M. Brodie

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.

— Clare Boothe Luce

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

— Tom Robbins

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

— Anonymous

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

— John McEnroe