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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

All autobiography is fiction.

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

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.

... 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

Nature did not make me willowy.

I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.

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

The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition.

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

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.

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

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

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

An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

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.

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