Autobiography Quote by J. M. Coetzee

Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder,…

— Rupert Murdoch

I had many doubts while writing my autobiography. I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested to read about my life.

— Naseeruddin Shah

I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences…

— Gunter Grass

Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela announced Tuesday he will begin writing his autobiography. He spent 25 years in prison before being elected to…

— Argus Hamilton

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

— Katherine Paterson

“I love storytelling when the writing spins through me like photons on their way to lighting the world.”

— Kay Kenyon

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

— Ashwin Sanghi

Storytelling is one of comics' esthetic hurdles at the moment, which was the novelist's problem 150 years ago: namely, to take comics from storytelling…

— Chris Ware

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

— Joseph Barbera

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

— Mia Farrow

Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the passing of…

— Janet Frame

The re-releases have more than doubled the amount of Led Zeppelin work out there. I wanted it done authoritatively, 'cause I was the one…

— Jimmy Page

Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.

— Edward Gibbon

“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

I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

— Stephen Adly Guirgis