Documents Quote by Henryk Sienkiewicz

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

Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct the past…

— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most…

— William Allingham

One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts…

— Theodor Haecker

Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.

— George Meredith

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

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

A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too.

— Walter Kirn

A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs.

— John D. Voelker

A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.

— Francois Mauriac

Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who…

— Arthur Golden

On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within…

— Paul Murray Kendall