Always Quote by Maya Angelou

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

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

— Sidney Poitier

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

— Patricia Hampl

“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

“I am, as it were, the created creating—a paradox, for all its rhetorical trappings, at the beating heart of our shared human journey, and…

— Sol Luckman

When you write an autobiography, it has to be authentic.

— Zeenat Aman

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

— Tom Robbins

What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we take into…

— Francis Spufford

Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression.

— Henry James

My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

We approach nonfiction at a much different level than we approach fiction or poetry or drama: that there's almost no room for metaphor. We…

— John D'Agata

There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your…

— Jeanette Winterson