Quotes About Autobiography

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.

even before the war began to provide him with material, Peale had brandished his brush as a weapon and used it with considerably greater skill than he ever used his musket. In his autobiography he called himself a "zealous advocate for the Liberties of his Country" since the time when "Great Britain first attempted to lay a tax on America." 38 This was bragging, but it was also true;

Gore Vidal in his memoir Palimpsest.

How to write a story, though ignorant or baffled. You take something that is important to you, something you have brooded about. You try to see it as clearly as you can, and to fix it in a transferable equivalent. All you want in the finished print is the clean statement of the lens, which is yourself, on the subject that has been absorbing your attention. Sure, it's autobiography. Sure, it's fiction. Either way, if you have done it right, it's true.

By the early twentieth century, autobiography was fast establishing itself as a major form of imaginative writing

What is clear is that at some point my father determined he would write the story of his life himself, rather than let it be written for him by his tortured past.

What is clear is that at some point my father determined he would write the story of his life himself, rather than let it be written for him by his tortured past. And this resolve was the greatest gift he bequeathed to his children.

Memories Before and After the Sound of Music An Autobiography

The fact that I get to write and direct my own personal story is an amazing thing.

I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me.

I think 'Shoe Dog' by Phil Knight is the best memoir I've ever read by a business person.

Autobiography is the poor man's history.

I now do my own cabaret act, singing and telling stories about my life.

Many candidates use a political autobiography to sell their candidacy.

I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I wanted to expand them beyond superheroes and talking animals. And I knew that was going to take a long time. But I just started writing an autobiography about my quotidian life.

Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason.

A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best for writing fiction.

I've always gone on the stage and told my stories. I am adventurer and a bard; I come home and I tell my story. Above all, I am a self-made man.

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

Everything a man writes about himself is instructive.

Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.