Autobiography Quote by Oddný Eir

Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer.

— Jeff Dunham

“One must not ask for sincere autobiographies from writers. Fiction was invented precisely to give men the possibility of expressing themselves freely.”

— Lev Shestov

“Aren’t autobiographies born in a question we ask ourselves: how did I get to this point? Don’t we look back over the path and…

— Frederick Weisel

“In moments of exhaustion, I think for some reason of writing an autobiography--proper work for tired artists--but every autobiographer must secretly believe he has…

— Arthur Miller

“Everyone is an autobiographer nowadays, it’s like everyone is actively writing their own biography all the time,”

— James Wallman

“Listen: I don't have anything against autobiographies, so long as the writer has a penis that's twelve inches long when erect. So long as…

— Roberto Bolaño

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

— Elizabeth Taylor

Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies.

— Elia Kazan

“Just because I'm a writer doesn't mean that my personal experiences are embellished. Every life has a story.”

— Terry a O'Neal

Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating…

— Gary Kemp

“People want biography. People want memoir. They want you to tell them that the story you're telling them is true. The thing I'm telling…

— Dorothy Allison

I feel autobiographies should be written when you're retiring and there's so much to talk about as you've been working for so many years…

— Asha Parekh