Autobiography Quote by Kate Zambreno

“One of the most moving narratives of modern history is the story of how men and women languishing under various forms of oppression came…

— Terry Eagleton

A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is…

— Fawn M. Brodie

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire…

— Charles Spurgeon

There is a tendency to presume autobiography in fiction by women or minorities. Guys named Jonathan write universal stories, while there's this sense that…

— Rumaan Alam

“...in autobiography, as in all literature, what actually happened is less important than what the author can manage to persuade his audience to believe”

— Salman Rushdie

“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

I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“...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

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

— Anonymous

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

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

— George Eliot

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

— Anonymous