Extraordinary Quote by Rhiannon Giddens

Most people who read the autobiography perceive the narrative as a story that now millions of people know, and it was - it's a…

— Manning Marable

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

— Anonymous

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

“...in autobiography, as in all literature, what actually happened is less important than what the author can manage to persuade his audience to believe”

— Salman Rushdie

“Julian had once told me that a story is a letter the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“A book always tells more about the author than the protagonist himself.”

— Sneha Mehta

In a novel there's not much autobiography. There are characters in transit. Naturally, I can project something of my experiences onto the characters, but…

— Dacia Maraini

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

— V. S. Naipaul

I researched and wrote 'Muhammad Ali: His Life And Times' for two years.

— Thomas Hauser

“He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.”

— Adam Langer

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.

— Clare Boothe Luce

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