Autobiography Quotes

Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you

For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography

I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be five volumes before I even got into the band!

All autobiography is fiction.

Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written.

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

I was raised to farm work.

To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.

All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.

I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.

Nature did not make me willowy.

... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

Photos are our autobiography, a way of telling who we are.

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

Often your face is your autobiography

Music is not my life. My life is music.

What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.

I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and a biography, 'The Grocer's Daughter.'

Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.

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.

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'

If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don't do that, I've hamstrung the melody.

I read Gloria Swanson's autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time.

In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.

I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.

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

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.

An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions.

I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.

I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level.

An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.

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

What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we take into ourselves help to shape us.

I've written a lot of autobiography, which also involved listening.

If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism in America".

I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

Every ist writes his own autobiography.

Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression.