Autobiography Quotes

I was kind of relieved with the way the book [The Proud Highway] came out. It's beyond an autobiography or a biography. I never knew what was going to come up next.

Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the passing of time giving an X-ray quality to the eye.

I like to read. Autobiographies.

If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it exaggerated.

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 pain.

Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else.

Everyone plagiarizes me. Ever since I wrote my autobiography.

The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography, 'Why Not the Best?,' published in 1975.

I love “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” That was like the only black book we read in high school...

UCLA acknowledged this shift by bringing in Alex Haley (the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X) and Eldridge Cleaver (Soul on Ice) as speakers.

My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.

I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.

With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen as privileged.

I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature.

I wasn't allowed to use people's real names, such as my siblings and my children's father, but there's nothing fabricated or untrue in my autobiography.

My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere.

Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.

biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.

Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.

I started writing about New Mexico in an autobiography class I was taking for school, and realized that it was very inspiring place for me.

Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.

when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.

I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition.

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.

Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.

I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.

All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.

The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.

an autobiography held out the promise of hearing truths that only friends confess to one another but are knowledge you need to live.

All criticism is a form of autobiography

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.

A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography and autobiography, and so that will be my next thing.

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

I don't want to get into autobiographies, I don't want to talk about myself.

The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.

The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about in my Autobiography.

I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.

I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as a memoir. They're essays; they're not an autobiography.

I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

There is no question in my mind: reading Gandhi's autobiography changed my life.

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.