Autobiography Quote by William S. Burroughs

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

— Anonymous

“In a way, an autobiography seems to me like a household book of accounts – what has been acquired, to what purpose has it…

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

“A writer is a river. Everything flows and changes and we're never the same person as the one who wrote yesterday's story.”

— Aleksandr Voinov

I didn't want to sugarcoat anything. I wanted to make an honest story. Of course, to write a real autobiography, you've got to tell…

— Superstar Billy Graham

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

— Ricky Hatton

“Without the personal traumas, tribulations and ‘terribles’ that I have experienced throughout life, I wouldn’t have gained the information necessary to write this book…

— Emma James

“My past is my story to keep, and my future will be written by me, in my own way, not through the control or…

— Terry Goodkind

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

— Zeenat Aman

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

There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Neither is a memoir the same as a biography, which aims for the most objective, factual account of a life. A memoir, as I…

— Sonia Sotomayor

I had many doubts while writing my autobiography. I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested to read about my life.

— Naseeruddin Shah