Anthem Quote by Giorgio Moroder

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

— Joseph Barbera

If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth…

— Fernando Pessoa

I've had a wonderful life. What people are going to write about me 10 years after I'm dead - who cares?

— Andy Grove

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

— Samuel Goldwyn

I was going to write an autobiography once. I started writing it, and then I thought, 'No, let them dig around when I'm dead.'

— Jeff Beck

When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.

— Walt Disney

When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if…

— Conor Oberst

I write about things I care about, like any songwriter, whether it's a personal thing or not.

— Declan McKenna

I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.

— J. D. Salinger

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and…

— Harold Brodkey

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

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