Autobiography Quotes

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

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid.

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.

A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

I think that today's books, in which every quote, every conversation, is taken from a memoir, an autobiography, an interview, or what-have-you, are much more convincing.

I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.

If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.

there is no truly honest autobiography.

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.

I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I go. I'm paying the normal rate of tax on the money I take out for myself.

I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.

I keep stacks of Autobiography of a Yogi around the house, and I give it out constantly to people. When people need 'regrooving,' I say read this, because it cuts to the heart of every religion.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx.

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

Whenever I see an autobiography for sale in the book store i just flip to the about the author section. I'm like, "Done, next!"

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.

I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now ready to tell my story.

I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.

I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.

This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

If you believe the past can't be changed, you haven't read a celebrity's autobiography.

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

When I bought out my first autobiography I received the biggest tax bill of my life.

If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

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

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!

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!

There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies

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

All autobiography is fiction.

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