Autobiography Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

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

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

I absolutely think that women told that writing about themselves is somehow not worthy enough for a public audience all the time. I hear…

— Melissa Febos

I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

— Tom Robbins

I think I do more fiction than autobiography.

— Martine Syms

Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me.…

— W. P. Kinsella

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

— Tom Stoppard

When I was first approached about doing an autobiography, I said, 'absolutely not.' But when I sat down, memories came pouring out. It wrote…

— Julia Cameron

“In moments of exhaustion, I think for some reason of writing an autobiography--proper work for tired artists--but every autobiographer must secretly believe he has…

— Arthur Miller

You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.

— Ricky Hatton

The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman worked familiar…

— Debra Dean