Quotes About Autobiography

What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?

But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.

I thought of muses as inventions to protect one's insight, to avoid questions like Where do your ideas come from? Or to escape inquiry into the fuzzy area between autobiography and fiction.

In seiner Autobiographie 'Als wär's ein Stück von mir' hat Carl Zuckmayer die Menschen und ihre Landschaft hoch im Norden der USA geschildert, hat er seinen Alltag als Farmer in den Jahren 1941 bis 1946 noch einmal wachgerufen.

Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad things you did do - well, that's memoirs.

After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.

In 'Out of the Dark,' I'm talking about my own life. I'm not talking as a character or speaking as a character. I was not as free as when I write fiction.

I was a fan of the Marx Brothers. One of them had this character where he pretended not to be able to talk, but then he wrote this autobiography called 'Harpo Speaks!' He wrote about how he quit school at nine years old to become a professional.

I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography.

I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one reason why I'm not going to do it. If young Posh Spice can write her autobiography, then I don't want to write one!

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.

Of course it's fun writing about an egomaniac, but I know there are going to be reviewers who've never met me, who don't know anything about me, who are going to say this is autobiography: he's just changed the names of a few people, and the rest is totally as it was.

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' - you are inhabiting that 'I.'

At the same time, Putin's background in the security services facilitated his use of the law-enforcement apparatus. In his autobiography, Putin emphasized the unity of St. Petersburg's law-enforcement agencies during the early 1990s, a unity that he had helped to forge.

How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the I that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist.

My childhood, I thought naively, was mine alone, those memories painted in vibrant oil strokes on the canvas of my years.

Now he wanted that which had always been my own—my story. Tell

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

I am writing My Life so that I may laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.

I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.

We all know that history is personal, so here is my brief "Autobiography by Bathroom." I've titled it "To Pee or Not to Pee." Not to get all Shakespearean or anything, but the process does involve shocks that flesh is heir to, the baring of bodkins, swearing, and what can feel like a sea of troubles.