Quotes About Autobiography

The year 2015 brought me so many further chances to spread the word about human rights violations in North Korea, from addressing the United Nations to publishing my autobiography.

I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least.

I enjoy looking back on my life. I'm thinking seriously about starting to write about it.

One eventually had to confront it. Wasn't Hitler's own struggle to express himself in German the crucial subtext of his massive ranting autobiography, dictated in a fortress prison in the Bavarian hills? Grammar and syntax. The man may have felt himself imprisoned in more ways than one.

La nube del no saber —respondió el conte, e hizo una pausa—. Siempre me ha parecido un título maravilloso para una autobiografía.

Autobiography just isn't good or bad enough to work as fiction… Unrevised, real life is just a mess.

The autobiography part isn't what matters," I began, before I got bogged down in all the amalgams. The

I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature.

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

I always call Billy Elliot a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.

If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don't do that, I've hamstrung the melody.

I wasn't allowed to use people's real names, such as my siblings and my children's father, but there's nothing fabricated or untrue in my autobiography.

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

THE main thing to remember in autobiography, I have always thought, is not to let any damned modesty creep in to spoil the story. This adventure is mine, Albert Campion's, and I am fairly certain that I was pretty nearly brilliant in it in spite of the fact that I so nearly got myself and old Lugg killed that I hear a harp quintet whenever I consider it.

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.

I really think this kind of consensual cannibalism is such a perfect analogue for the reciprocal relationship between writer and reader, and especially between writers and readers of autobiography. The reader of an autobiography consumes the life of the author, and the author, in turn, consumes the life of the reader, that portion of it surrendered to reading, or listening to, the autobiography.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

Unless I am allowed to tell the story of my life in my own way, I cannot tell it at all.

She said that if I ever did produce an autobiography I should call it, Exit, Talking. This

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

All forms of evil which people hate have been suppressed. THE FIRST PART OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ANKHTIFI