Quotes About Autobiography

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.

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

The foundations of our decision making were gravely flawed," McNamara wrote in his autobiography. "We failed to analyze our assumptions critically, then or later."5

Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

I really didn't talk about my sexuality until I wrote my autobiography.

Some of the most influential novels of recent years, by Rachel Cusk and Karl Ove Knausgaard, take the method of self-conscious first-person testimony to a new level. Their more extreme admirers will tell you that imagination and invention are outmoded contrivances; that to inhabit the subjectivity of a character unlike the author is an act of appropriation, even colonialism; that the only authentic and politically defensible mode of narrative is autobiography.

Yankel's lipstick autobiography came flaking off his bedroom ceiling, falling gently like blood-stained snow to his bed and floor. You are Yankel. You love Brod. You are a Sloucher. You were once married, but she left you. You don't believe in an afterlife.

My celebrity memoir title: It Was the Worst of Times, It Was the Worst of Times.

You want self-knowledge? You should come to America. Just as the Mahatma had to go to jail and sit behind bars to write his autobiography. Or Nehru had to go to England to discover India. Things are clear only when looked at from a distance.

The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.

The course of life is unpredictable... no one can write his autobiography in advance.

Seven months after "Blessed Man," he wrote a sequel of sorts, also in stitched-together, "fugal" form. It's hard to read "Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, a Dying Cat, a Traded Car," which he sent off to Maxwell in early May 1961, and not think that we're once again reading raw autobiography.

The Unfinished Memoirs,

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

All this at the last I dimly saw, but an autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing. We think we write definitely of those parts of our nature that are dead and therefore beyond change, but that which writes is still changing - still in doubt.

Memory, memoir, autobiography - lies, lies, all lies.

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

One day I'll bring a biography of my life out and that will be the biggest joke I'll ever tell.

More and more I'm finding that I'm reading history, I'm reading biography, I'm reading autobiography for a sense of people who've been able to provide leadership. I don't read leadership books anymore.

One of the autobiographies I really liked was Bob Dylan's. It was interesting because he didn't do it in a linear fashion.

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

My answer is that if it be true that every novel contains an element of autobiography—and this can hardly be denied, since the creator can only express himself in his creation—then there are some of us to whom an open display of sentiment is repugnant.