Autobiography Quote by Raul Ramos y Sanchez

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

— Tom Robbins

The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.

— Patricia Hampl

“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

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

— Clarence Darrow

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

“In a way, an autobiography seems to me like a household book of accounts – what has been acquired, to what purpose has it…

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

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

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

— Daphne du Maurier

Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.

— Aleksandar Hemon

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

For better or worse, I seem to gravitate toward writing about something or someone else, then have my own self shove its way into…

— Lucas Mann

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

— Philip Guedalla