Quotes About Autobiography

We distance ourselves for protection, Wear scarves when it's cold. What seems most outlandish in our autobiography Is what really happened.

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

It would seem that on hearing Abélard's lecture, Anselm of Laon became "wildly jealous," circumstances that Abélard assigned to every conceivable cause except the one that he had set in motion. "Since the beginning of the human race," Abélard observed with some asperity in his autobiography, Historia Calamitatum (A History of My Misfortunes), women have "brought the noblest men to ruin.

I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.

I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I play everybody.

Un ser humano es un condensado de autoficción.

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.

May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me.

History is the autobiography of a madman.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Whenever I see an autobiography for sale in the book store i just flip to the about the author section. I'm like, "Done, next!"

An autobiography is inherently incomplete unless the last page is written on the eve of the author's demise.

A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.

Our lumber pile, recruited entirely from the river, is thus not only a collection of personalities, but an anthology of human strivings in upriver farms and forests. The autobiography of an old board is a kind of literature not yet taught on campuses, but any riverbank farm is a library where he who hammers or saws may read at will. Come high water, there is always an accession of new books.

It's much like writing an essay or including autobiographical content in fiction—to succeed, it requires an ability to be coldly impersonal about yourself and your state, so as not to cloud what is there with what you want to see.

History is the autobiography of a madman.

A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one's personal history and that of one's friends, interwoven with one's tastes, preferences, and character, and constitutes a sort of unwritten, but withal manifest autobiography.

'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

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