Autobiography Quote by Philip Guedalla Download Open image “Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.” — Philip Guedalla ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Autobiography People Telling the truth Truth Vehicle
“Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If… — Abraham A. Ribicoff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I always end… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford. — Philip Guedalla Copy Share Image
Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be. — Philip Guedalla Copy Share Image
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on… — Philip Guedalla Copy Share Image
The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface. — Philip Guedalla Copy Share Image
Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment. — Philip Guedalla Copy Share Image
The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled vehicles, each… — Philip Guedalla Copy Share Image
I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography. — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
“Someday, I want to write an unauthorized autobiography of myself.” — David McMullen-Sullivan Copy Share Image
“As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir… — Craig Briggs Copy Share Image
Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about in my… — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer. — Linda Simon Copy Share Image
I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must… — Nellie Melba Copy Share Image
