Autobiography Quote by W. H. Auden

“Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. […] If the same person were…

— W.H. Auden

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

— Tom Robbins

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

“The principal theme of any autobiography revolves around the brushwork of self-transformation, the freeing of the self from the strictures of self-imposed limitations, fears,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

— Fay Weldon

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

— Tom Stoppard

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

— Alan Dean Foster

I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.

— John Gregory Dunne

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

— Clarence Darrow

I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane…

— Jonathan Ames

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

— Daphne du Maurier

All autobiography is fiction.

— Sandra Tsing Loh