Quotes About Autobiography

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

I didn't know you could write about yourself. Nobody ever told me about this.

You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

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

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

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

It's very important to me I get my autobiography out before I die and someone else writes it and screws up my life.

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.

'Walking and Talking' is my autobiography. It's best to do it that way, rather than spend months writing a book that then ends up in the bargain bucket with all the other idiots' autobiographies.

There is always some sleight of hand going on in writing autobiography. So much has to be left out, especially things that might hurt or dismay people. But in a novel one can say everything. The novel is often autobiography distilled and / or transcended.

A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however, eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest though poor.

Since I've started working on my autobiography, I'm going to slow down work. I've decided to reduce my workload by not signing every film that comes my way.

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A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

Noch immer unentschieden. Franz«. Vier Worte, eine Autobiographie.

Traffic' was an album that had a significant amount of songs. It was not complete and I felt didn't fully represent me as a person or as the artist I want to be and so when I started the writing process for 'The Autobiography' I was really turning a corner in my life.

'Off With Their Heads' by Frances Marion. I love a showbusiness autobiography - and this one resonates because it's written by one of the great Hollywood screenwriters.

It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War' is perhaps the best war memoir ever written.

Dylan's 'Chronicles' is easily the best rock n' roll memoir ever written, as far as I'm concerned. There aren't many stories in there, but if you want to know where an artist came from and why he thinks the way he does, then that's the one.