Quotes About Autobiography

Everything has to be reconsidered, shaped anew. Autobiographical fiction, even if it is inspired by reality, by memory, requires a rigorous selection, a merciless cutting. One writes with the pen, but in the end, to create the right form, one has to use, like Matisse, a good pair of scissors.

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

Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.

Elizabeth disliked the tragic, martyred image of Virginia Woolf which grew up after her death. When she read the first volume of William Plomer's autobiography, At Home, in 1958, she told him that 'only you seem to bring back Virginia's laughter - I get so bored and irked by the tragic fiction which has been manufactured about her since 1941.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

The only patient being treated by the writer is himself

Sofka: The Autobiography of a Princess, a book

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

I've been asked to write my autobiography, but I've not been interested.

I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.

I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

Only if I reach 100 years old will I write a very complete autobiography. Not before.

I thought it would be more interesting to make a musical autobiography than an actual autobiography.

I think I do more fiction than autobiography.

People have asked me about doing an autobiography, but I don't think my life is that interesting.

My second book will be the autobiography of Destiny's Child.

You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.

The Too Short albums are not the autobiography of Todd Shaw.

'Panto!' is basically my life. It's not a comedy drama; it's a documentary. I was going to write an autobiography, but I thought I'd write this instead.

I had many doubts while writing my autobiography. I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested to read about my life.

A novel, especially a first novel, is... really an emotional autobiography. All these emotions I'm embarrassed at having had, I've written about.