Art Quote by Havelock Ellis

“Every person writes his own book with the example of his life.”

— Casper Silk

Every man is the author of his own life.

— Paul Auster

All autobiography is fiction.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.”

— George Bernard Shaw

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

— George Bernard Shaw

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

— Tom Stoppard

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

— J. M. Coetzee

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

— Tom Robbins

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Clarence Darrow

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

— Daphne du Maurier

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.

— Clare Boothe Luce