Autobiography Quote by Lisel Mueller

“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

The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and people out…

— Diablo Cody

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at…

— Josh Radnor

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

— Clarence Darrow

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 real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.

— Patricia Hampl

Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction.

— Lisa Unger

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

— Tom Robbins

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

— Tom Stoppard

There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write -…

— Ian Anderson

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

— Mary J. Blige

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.

— Clare Boothe Luce