Quotes About Autobiography

Over the years, I had something in principle against autobiographical writing altogether because memory plays tricks on us, and we also tend to reinvent ourselves. But there comes an age when one begins to observe life, and there are things that need time to mature, also in terms of literary form.

I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.

I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!

I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be five volumes before I even got into the band!

Steven Gerrard with Donald McRae MY STORY

This may become a history book, but remember, it is only my history.

Read biography as history and as the cause of history; take all autobiographies with a grain of salt; and never forget that you must not argue with a book until you fully understand what it is saying.

I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life.

'Dreams from My Father' was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work of historical fiction.

I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

Too many memoirs focus on childhoods and it's a bit turgid.

Part of the thing about why I wrote memoirs rather than a novel is that if anybody is going to tell my story it is going to be me in my way.

People ask me if I am going to write my memoirs. But even if I wanted to, I would not be able. I have extremely few memories.

I don't think anybody would be interested in my memoir - and my memory isn't very good either!

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

PopadÅ'bym w znany bÅ'Ä…d autobiografów, który polega na tym, ?e albo snujÄ… iluzje, jak to by? powinno, albo kreÅ›lÄ… jakÄ…Å› apologia pro vita sua. A przecie? czÅ'owiek jest zdarzeniem, nie mo?e oceni? samego siebie, lecz raczej - for better or worse - podlega osÄ…dowi innych.

A couple of weeks ago I received a phone call form a young woman who inquired as to how she might obtain a copy of In Memory Yet Green (the first volume of my autobiography)... There seemed no point in suggesting that she haunt the second bookstores because no one but an idiot ever abandons one of my books after it has come in his possession, and there are few idiots who know enough to buy one of my books in the first place.

Is there anything more vain than an autobiography?

The re-releases have more than doubled the amount of Led Zeppelin work out there. I wanted it done authoritatively, 'cause I was the one writing the stuff; I was the producer and mixer. I don't think it's any more weird than writing your autobiography.

How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

The Mary J. Blige song is called 'My Life.' It's kinda like an autobiography song, stating what I'm about and what I'm trying to do and what I've done.

Harper Collins gave me a letter of intent saying that they want me to pen down my autobiography. When I was recollecting the incidents of my life for that, I selected only those incidents which were turning points in my life. I staged it instead of writing it.

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

I just wanted to be a good comic and had no sense of show business, but at some point you want the opportunity to write a show about your life.