Quotes About Autobiography

My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.

I think with my book, I wanted to first of all just be completely involved in it. I wanted to write it; I didn't want a ghost writer. I wanted to be honest about everything.

It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of—namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious auto-biography; and moreover that the moral (or immoral) purpose in every philosophy has constituted the true vital germ out of which the entire plant has always grown.

I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later.

Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between the lines, spars with his reader and potential judge.

Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).

Iwould say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.

How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?

As testimony to the power of redemption and the force of human personality, the autobiography of Malcolm X is a revelation.

a monologue defines its author as reliably as his fingerprints.

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

I can see all the stories of my life. I can pick and choose from among them.

I've learned that history is the autobiography of the historian, that ignoring the past is the act of a fool, and that loyalty does not mean falling into line, but stepping out of it for the people you love.

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Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.

I don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair.

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

Even I would find a book about my life pretty dull.

There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.

It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.