Autobiography Quotes

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.

History is the autobiography of a madman.

Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.

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

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

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

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

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

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

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

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.

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.

The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies.

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

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

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.

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

After my stroke I put down much of the luggage of my life. I didn't have to prove anything anymore - in business, in my personal life or whatever. And now, as I work on my autobiography, I enjoy looking back, seeing the connections, the causes and effects of my life.

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

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

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

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

All autobiography is fiction.

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

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.

I was raised to farm work.

All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.

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

Often your face is your autobiography

Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.

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

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

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.

There's a lot of bullshit in Peter Fonda's autobiography. A great deal of it is complete fabrication.

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

Everyone plagiarizes me. Ever since I wrote my autobiography.

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

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

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.

I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.

The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition.

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