Across Quote by Miguel Syjuco

I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years…

— Miguel Syjuco

I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.

— Nathaniel Rich

“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

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

— Tom Robbins

In a novel there's not much autobiography. There are characters in transit. Naturally, I can project something of my experiences onto the characters, but…

— Dacia Maraini

The problem with an autobiography is that all these extra factors make it difficult. You don't want to hurt people's feelings. You don't know…

— Richard Hell

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

— Anonymous

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

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

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

— Clarence Darrow

When my relations with the Communist Party gave me the necessary perspective I decided to write my autobiography. I wanted to show how a…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

There's a lot of material from my life in my books, but they're not really autobiographical, in the sense that they're not about my…

— Sigrid Nunez