Autobiography Quote by V. S. Naipaul

Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged…

— Nicholas Delbanco

All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.

— Norman Spinrad

“Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.”

— V.S. Naipaul

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

— Clarence Darrow

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

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

— Philip Guedalla

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

Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.

— Robert A. Heinlein

All autobiography is fiction.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find…

— Robert Penn Warren

“Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.”

— Anonymous

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