Autobiography Quote by Linda Simon

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

— Fay Weldon

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

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

“In many ways. . .the completeness of biography, the achievement of its professionalization, is an ironic fiction, since no life can ever be known…

— Ira Bruce Nadel

“Biographers are not usually as explicit as philosophers such as Plato, Wittgenstein, Austin, or Moore on questions of the existence of an essential self,…

— Hermione Lee

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

— Mary J. Blige

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always…

— Rachel Holmes

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

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

— V. S. Naipaul

One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles…

— Anonymous

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.

— Clare Boothe Luce

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

— Richard Hell