Autobiography Quote by John Berger Download Open image “Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.” — John Berger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Autobiography Orphan
An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
In a novel there's not much autobiography. There are characters in transit. Naturally, I can project something of my experiences onto the characters, but… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“The principal theme of any autobiography revolves around the brushwork of self-transformation, the freeing of the self from the strictures of self-imposed limitations, fears,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing,… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. — John Berger Copy Share Image
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which… — John Berger Copy Share Image
We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries. — John Berger Copy Share Image
My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like that... the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one. — John Berger Copy Share Image
In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled… — John Berger Copy Share Image
We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves. — John Berger Copy Share Image
We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death.… — John Berger 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
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