Autobiography Quote by V. S. Naipaul

“An autobiography is inherently incomplete unless the last page is written on the eve of the author's demise.”

— Dan Makaon

An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity…

— Graham Greene

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.

— Clare Boothe Luce

“In many ways. . .the completeness of biography, the achievement of its professionalization, is an ironic fiction, since no life can ever be known…

— Ira Bruce Nadel

biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.

— Linda Simon

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

— Pamela Stephenson

Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an…

— William Golding

I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

— Carlos Fuentes

When you write an autobiography, it has to be authentic.

— Zeenat Aman

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always…

— Rachel Holmes

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

— V. S. Naipaul