Autobiography famous quotes

The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.
-- Agatha Christie

#Writing #Autobiography #Sooner Or Later

History is the autobiography of a madman.
-- Alexander Herzen

#Madmen #Autobiography

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#Artistic #Strikes #Autobiography

I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.
-- Brett Davern

#Memoir #Autobiography

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.
-- Celia Johnson

#Writing #Affair #Autobiography

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
-- Clare Boothe Luce

#Autobiography

All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.
-- Clare Boothe Luce

#Autobiography

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.
-- Courtney Thorne Smith

#Stories #Trouble #Autobiography

All autobiography is self-indulgent.
-- Daphne du Maurier

#Book #Self #Autobiography

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

#Children #Book #Autobiography

... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.
-- Elizabeth Bowen

#Fiction #Autobiography

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.
-- Gelett Burgess

#Yoga #Body #Autobiography

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

#Autobiography #Trusted

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.
-- Harvey Pekar

#Ongoing #Splendor #Autobiography

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

#Biographies #Admirable #Autobiography

Photos are our autobiography, a way of telling who we are.
-- Jan Phillips

#Who We Are #Way #Autobiography

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

#Art #Lying #Autobiography

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

#Waiting #Want #Autobiography

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

#Orphan #Form #Autobiography

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

#Believe #I Believe #Autobiography

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

#Writing #Attractive #Autobiography

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

#Grandfather #Autobiography #My Grandfather

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

#Actors #Biographies #Autobiography

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.
-- Lisel Mueller

#Writing #Facts #Autobiography

Story , finally, is humanity 's autobiography .
-- Lloyd Alexander

#Humanity #Stories #Autobiography

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.
-- Mary Antin

#Bed #Confession #Autobiography

there is no truly honest autobiography.
-- Mary Roberts Rinehart

#Honest #Autobiography

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.
-- Megan Martha White

#Idols #Want #Autobiography

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

#Autobiography

Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.
-- Pedro Almodovar

#Plagiarism #Autobiography

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.
-- Robert Pinsky

#Notorious #Genre #Autobiography

All autobiography is fiction.
-- Sandra Tsing Loh

#Crafts #Fiction #Autobiography

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
-- Sidney Poitier

#Stories #Story Of My Life #Autobiography

The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies.
-- T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

#Home #Surroundings #Autobiography

Let's face it, it's only called Scrubs because I'm saving 'Zach Braff' for my autobiography.
-- Zach Braff

#Faces #Saving #Autobiography

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.
-- Kate Zambreno

#Character #Fiction #Autobiography

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

#Book #Hemisphere #Autobiography

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

#Biographies #Autobiography #Biographers

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

#Want #Autobiography

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

#Writing #Thinking #Autobiography