Autobiography Quotes

Autobiography Quote of the day

Your limits are somewhere up there, waiting for you to reach beyond infinity.

A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education.

But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader and a citizen, I don’t want to live in that world.

On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it.

History is the autobiography of a madman.

Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.

Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.

To work with God's happiness bubbling in the soul is to carry a portable paradise within you wherever you go.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

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

I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.

I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.

The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.

Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.

Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.

The way people move is their autobiography in motion.

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.

If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.

They asked me what I wanted to call my autobiography. I suggested: The Definitive Volume on the Finest Bloody Fast Bowler That Ever Drew Breath.

God is simple, everything else is complex

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!

Ric Flair was so big I heard about him. I've read his autobiography and all that. He's huge.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers?

Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

To write an autobiography, you've got to expose other people. I hope to get out of this world as gracefully as possible, without embarrassing anyone.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its rewards were greater than I expected.

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

Siamese twins are interesting because they are the only people who can write a biography and an autobiography at the same time.

The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by the light of matches which keep blowing out.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

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 out what you really think or who you are.

I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what I call a mans man.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

Sometimes you don’t get a second chance. You need to take a chance when you have the opportunity. Always.