Quotes on Autobiography

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

Author: W. Auden

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

Author: Joseph Barbera

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

Author: Hilaire Belloc

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

Author: John Berger

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.

Author: Jeffrey Bernard

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

Author: Humphrey Carpenter

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.

Author: Joan Collins

In fact Sarah Palin has created more jobs than Obama has. She created eleven jobs fact-checking at the AP just for the Palin autobiography.

Author: Ann Coulter

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

Author: Quentin Crisp

I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography.

Author: June Foray

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

Author: Samuel Goldwyn

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

Author: Kathy Griffin

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.

Author: Guillermo Infante

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.

Author: Celia Johnson

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

Author: Franklin Jones

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.

Author: Jonathan Lethem

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

Author: Daphne Maurier

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

Author: John McEnroe

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!

Author: Pat Morita

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

Author: V. Naipaul

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.

Author: P. O'Rourke

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

Author: Della Reese

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

Author: Herbert Samuel

There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.

Author: Pamela Stephenson

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

Author: Thomas Szasz

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.

Author: William Trevor

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

Author: Robert Warren

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

Author: Steven Wright