Quotes About Autobiography

There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies

It's why I am a writer...To avoid the narrow mesh of Mrs Winterson's story I had to be able to tell my own.

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

Since I will never write the autobiography I once envisioned—volume one, Who I Was; volume two, I Told You So—writing about travel has become a way of making sense of my life

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

There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies

Every ist writes his own autobiography.

Sebuah otobiografi tak berbeda dengan pembedahan mental. Sangat sakit. Melepas plester pembalut luka-luka dari ingatan seseorang dan membuka luka-luka itu, banyak diantaranya yang mulai sembuh terasa perih.

I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what I call a man's man.

title of many of his books and ultimately his autobiography: Models of Man (1957), Models of Discovery (1977), Models of Thought (1979 and 1989), Models of Bounded Rationality (1982), and Models of My Life (1991).

creativity and imagination are as crucial to the life writing project as they are to fiction and poetry. We'll explore, and attempt, both autobiography and biography in Part 4, and in activities you'll be able to form your writing into poetry and/or prose.

Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the clothes you have ever owned in all your life, each baby shoe and winter coat and wedding dress, you would have your autobiography.

Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the clothes you have ever owned in all your life, each baby shoe and winter coat and wedding dress, you would have your autobiography. You could wear, once more, your own life in all its stages, from whatever they wrapped you in when you emerged from the dark red naked warmth of the womb to your deathbed.

I try to put my own history in my work.

I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it only rarely.

But, Tarantino has seen all of my movies. He's seen my good stuff, he's seen my bad stuff, he's seen the ones I directed, he's read my autobiography. There's an awful lot of things he knows about me, all of which I think had something to do with his casting.

If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told.

I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now ready to tell my story.

What you're reading here is basically a person having a conversation with his own biography.

All great autobiography is about loss, about the hopeless but necessary quest to retrieve and control a past that forever slips away. Memory is both inspiration and burden, method and subject, the thing one cannot live with or without.

These two "speech communities," as it were, are Hurston's great sources of inspiration not only in her novels but also in her autobiography.

I believe people have the right to tell their own story as honestly and accurately as they can.

I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.