Autobiography Quote by Humphrey Carpenter Download Open image “Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.” — Humphrey Carpenter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Autobiography Lying Respectable
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. — Philip Guedalla Copy Share Image
“Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“Lying is such a central characteristic of life that better understanding of it is relevant to almost all human affairs.” — Paul Ekman Copy Share Image
I think the act of lying can be separated from the genre of memoir. Though often times, people are unaware of their own subjectivity. — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction . — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I can write, He floated up to the ceiling, and a baby rabbit came out of his pocket, grew wings, and flew away. And… — Humphrey Carpenter Copy Share Image
“But, said Lewis, myths are lies, even though lies breathed through silver. No, said Tolkien, they are not. ...just as speech is invention about… — Humphrey Carpenter Copy Share Image
The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks. — Humphrey Carpenter Copy Share Image
You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely… — Humphrey Carpenter Copy Share Image
“And though he liked drawing trees he liked most of all to be with trees. He would climb them, lean against them, even talk… — Humphrey Carpenter Copy Share Image
“Or rather, it made him into two people. He was by nature a cheerful almost irrepressible person with a great zest for life. He… — Humphrey Carpenter Copy Share Image
“The poet was, of course, always present to assist the debater. Though the logic of Lewis's Christian apologetics may be fallible, the imagination of… — Humphrey Carpenter Copy Share Image
I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography. — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
“Someday, I want to write an unauthorized autobiography of myself.” — David McMullen-Sullivan Copy Share Image
“As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir… — Craig Briggs Copy Share Image
Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about in my… — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer. — Linda Simon Copy Share Image
I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must… — Nellie Melba Copy Share Image
