Time Quote by Milan Kundera

“[A]n old writer’s memory is the whore of his imagination. We all reinvent our pasts, I said, but writers are in a class of…

— John le Carré

“It takes one person to rewrite the history book.”

— J.R. Rim

“How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?”

— Malcolm X

On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within…

— Paul Murray Kendall

“sat down and wrote two versions of my own obituary – the one I wanted and the one I was headed for. They were…

— Martin Grunburg

“Only one who takes over his own life history can see in it the realization of his self. Responsibility to take over one's own…

— Jürgen Habermas

“Sometimes people have too much history together, history of the wrong kind, and people cannot tear pages from the book of their life. Once…

— Ryan David Jahn

“The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.”

— Elizabeth J. Andrew

“An autobiography is inherently incomplete unless the last page is written on the eve of the author's demise.”

— Dan Makaon

“Can a writer forget something that he’s written in one of his own books? Yes, of course.”

— Sherman Alexie

“Writing about the past is a way of reliving it, a way of seeing it unfold all over again. We place memories on pieces…

— Nathan Filer

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