Another man Quote by Paul Murray Kendall

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

— George Eliot

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

— Fay Weldon

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

— Carlos Fuentes

One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts…

— Theodor Haecker

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying,…

— George Orwell

biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.

— Linda Simon

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

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

— Mark Twain

Biography is the medium through which the remaining secrets of the famous dead are taken from them and dumped out in full view of…

— Janet Malcolm

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

— Dan Makaon

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

— V. S. Naipaul

The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of having come to know…

— Mary Cable