Autobiography Quote by John Cleese

Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer.

— Jeff Dunham

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.

— Molly Ringwald

Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating…

— Gary Kemp

“It's so embarrassing to think that someone is actually interested in what you're thinking. And in that regard, it's almost unbelievable that autobiographies are…

— Oddný Eir

Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies.

— Elia Kazan

I am a very honest, open person and I think there is a tendency in celebrity autobiographies to gloss over certain things which have…

— Les Dennis

I think people dismiss celebrity memoirs as unreal, contrived and maybe partially made up. But that's definitely not true for anything that I write.

— Hilary Liftin

I admit to subscribing to all the celebrity rags. The best part of being an author is if the celebs aren't being ridiculous enough,…

— Lauren Weisberger

I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a ghostwriter has…

— Hilary Liftin

A lot of people get to the point in their careers where blurbs are ghostwritten for them, because they're like, "I want to support…

— Emily Gould

“No shame in having a ghostwriter," Storm said. "Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose identity the…

— Richard Castle

There seems to be a tremendous desire among many people now to know authors and how they work, to know what's autobiographical and what…

— Alice Mattison