Quotes About Autobiography

There is no question in my mind: reading Gandhi's autobiography changed my life.

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

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

You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it...fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away on a shelf - your book, your romanced autobiography. We are all in the flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo sapiens.

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

Obama is a very fine writer with an excellent command of language. His memoir 'Dreams From My Father' is a fine book, but it will not rank as one of the great autobiographies.

Quincy Jones' autobiography 'Q' is very good. Because he's a master at music, he's one of our greatest composers, and its good for him to have a book and tell the good ole days when he was with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan and Ray Charles.

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.

I don't cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel, 'Say Her Name.'

'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.

If I ever wrote an autobiography - and I won't - it would be called 'Don't Google Me.'

Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.'

So many people had been asking me to write an autobiography, or threatening to write my biography without any input from me, that I thought I'd better tell my story before other people told it for me.

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

Siamese twins are interesting because they are the only people who can write a biography and an autobiography at the same time.

This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.

Il racconto è scritto in prima persona e messo in bocca al personaggio principale, procedimento per il quale io ho una certa predilezione perché elimina dal libro il punto di vista dell'autore, o almeno i suoi commenti, e perché permette di mostrare un essere umano che fronteggia la sua stessa vita e si sforza più o meno onestamente di spiegarla e innanzitutto di ricordarsela.

What you say, Nick, strengthens my contention that only a novel can imply certain truths impossible to state by exact definition. Biography and autobiography are forced to attempt exact definition. In doing so truth goes astray. The novelist is more serious—if that is the word.

Good fiction is autobiography dressed in the colours of all mankind.

Detesto scrivere pezzi autobiografici: se il materiale è noioso non bisognerebbe infliggerlo a nessuno, e se è interessante dovrei usarlo per un racconto.

But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.

I would like to write my life story, but it seems to write itself.