Admirable Quote by Hilaire Belloc

“The fiction writer is the ombudsman who argues our humble, dubious case in the halls of eternal record.”

— John Updike

Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.

— Hilaire Belloc

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

— Pamela Stephenson

I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that.

— Nicholas Negroponte

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

— Tom Robbins

The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.

— Angus Wilson

while it is certainly the biographer's business to describe the foibles, passions and idiosyncrasies which make his subject a person, his work will be…

— Iris Origo

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

— Fay Weldon

“I really think this kind of consensual cannibalism is such a perfect analogue for the reciprocal relationship between writer and reader, and especially between…

— Mark Leyner

“...if it be true that every novel contains an element of autobiography—and this can hardly be denied, since the creator can only express himself…

— Joseph Conrad

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

— Tom Stoppard

“My answer is that if it be true that every novel contains an element of autobiography—and this can hardly be denied, since the creator…

— Joseph Conrad