Quotes About Autobiography

I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.

No os lo vais a creer, pero ayer por la noche, a eso de las cuatro de la madrugada, vi en la tele una película que era mi biografía o mi autobiografía o un resumen de mis días en el puto planeta Tierra. Me cago en la hostia santa, el susto que me dio casi me hizo que me cayera del sillón.

What is the difference between fiction and memoir, really? I mean, isn't there a bit of autobiography in every novel? And isn't there a bit of fiction in every memoir? Memory is elastic, and no two people have the same version of any given event. Our versions of our own lives are necessarily fictional to some degree, wouldn't you agree?

nosotros mismos, porque nuestra identidad reside en la memoria, en el relato de nuestra biografía

Emma Goldman wrote an autobiography called Living My Life that Jiko is always trying to get me to read, but I haven't gotten around to it yet because I'm too busy living my life or trying to figure out how not to.

I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred.

in autobiography, as in all literature, what actually happened is less important than what the author can manage to persuade his audience to believe

Esta noite, ao rolhar energicamente um frasco com a etiqueta Fórmula Especial n.º 30, cheguei ao fim da minha longa autobiografia: em palavras e em conserva, imortalizei as minhas recordações, ainda que, num como noutro método, seja inevitável a distorção. Temos de viver, receio bem, com as sombras da imperfeição.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential autobiographies.

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life

My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind.

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

When I bought out my first autobiography I received the biggest tax bill of my life.

If you publish Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography, no one will read it but if it's Madhuri Dixit's or Madhubala's autobiography people will come and read it.

I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business.' A publisher came to me and said, 'Write a book,' so I did. I wanted to call it 'Everybody Else Has Got a Book.'

For a book publisher, there is hardly a more dangerous category than that of celebrity autobiography. Forget who it's by, most books of this kind not only fail but fail big, since they are invariably expensive.

When I left the Senate in 1979, there were several publishers who had approached me about writing an autobiography, and I knew that politicians write books for many reasons, but at that time, I just thought I wasn't ready and my story wasn't over, and I knew I had a new life ahead of me.

I absolutely wasn't going to write a book if it was just going to be about punk.

My mom was big on education, big on reading, so she was always pushing books on me: 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X,' like, 'Read these books.' And it was like, man, I'm learning stuff that I just can't get anywhere else.

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.