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“Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If the original of any of your characters would win a libel case against you, you have failed to create a real character.” — John Braine Copy Share Image
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
“...if it be true that every novel contains an element of autobiography—and this can hardly be denied, since the creator can only express himself… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Society will question your reputation, but it will believe your defamation without question.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Someday, I want to write an unauthorized autobiography of myself.” — David McMullen-Sullivan Copy Share Image
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“As a journalist I'm asked whether I make things up. As a novelist I'm accused of telling the truth.” — Lennox Morrison Copy Share Image
“My answer is that if it be true that every novel contains an element of autobiography—and this can hardly be denied, since the creator… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.” — Seeley James 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
