Autobiography Quotes - page 3

I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves! (Kajol)
I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them. View quote
Kate Fleetwood
Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical. View quote
Lisel Mueller
An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end. View quote
Richard Hell
I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography. View quote
Stephen Adly Guirgis
It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
My autobiography was simply the story of my life. View quote
Sidney Poitier
Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Today I read your autobiography in two volumes, Living My Life. These two books full of life, shocked me greatly. Your roaring of forty years like spring thunder, knocked at the door of my living grave throughout the whole book. At this time, silence lost its effect, the fire of my life was lit, I want to come to life and go through great anguish, immeasurable joy, dark despair and enthusiastic hope, throughout the peak and the abyss of life. I will calmly go on living with an attitude you taught me until I spend my whole life. View quote
Ba Jin
Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography. View quote
James Frey
Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else. (Jim Butcher)
I believe there's only one autobiography you can do. View quote
John McEnroe
I'm signed to release the third book in the series. When they invited me to do the Noelle book I had started on an autobiography, sort of, because I still get a lot of questions about that. I done so much music in my life, and writing is a beautiful outlet to continue to grow. View quote
Gloria Estefan
I'm the Vampire Lestat. Remember me? The vampire who became a super rock star, the one who wrote the autobiography? The one with the blond hair and the blue eyes, and the insatiable desire for visibility and fame? You remember. View quote
Anne Rice
Should he ever write an autobiography, he'd call it The Life and Death of a Male Body. View quote
Philip Roth
I know that my early life was at one and the same time so common as to be unremarkable, and so strange as to be the stuff of fiction. I know of course that this is how all human lives are, but that it is only given to a few of us to luxuriate in the bath of self-revelation, self-curiosity, apology, revenge, bafflement, vanity and egoism that goes under the name Autobiography. You have seen me at my washpot scrubbing at the grime of years: to wallow in a washpot may not be the same thing as to be purified and cleansed, but I have come away from this very draining, highly bewildering and passionately intense few months feeling slightly less dirty. Less dirty about the first twenty years of my life, at least. The second twenty, now that is another story. View quote
Stephen Fry
All autobiography is self-indulgent. View quote
Daphne du Maurier
I think the circle is very abstract. I could make up stories of what the circle means to men, but I don't know if it is that conscious. I think it was a form, a vehicle. I don't think I had a sexual anthropomorphic, or geometric meaning. It wasn't a breast and it wasn't a circle representing life and eternity.... I remember always working with contradiction and contradictory forms which is my idea also in life. The whole absurdity of life, everything for me has always been opposite. Nothing has ever been in the middle. When I gave you my autobiography, my life never had anything normal or in the center. It was always extremes. View quote
Eva Hesse
By nature of me being the one singing it and writing it there is always an innate bit of autobiography there ... but I think I learned years ago that you don't get songs that have that long stride and that pivot-hinge ability if it's too much diary entry. View quote
Leslie Feist
All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction. View quote
P. D. James
Well, Aimee Semple McPherson has written a book. And were you to call it a little peach, you would not be so much as scratching its surface. It is the story of her life, and it is called In the Service of the King, which title is perhaps a bit dangerously suggestive of a romantic novel. It may be that this autobiography is set down in sincerity, frankness and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario. (Dorothy Parker)
Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' - you are inhabiting that 'I.' View quote
Kate Atkinson
A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become. View quote
Fawn M. Brodie
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
At about the time when the autobiography first appeared I remember reading its opening chapters in the ill-printed pages of some Indian newspaper. They made a good impression on me, which Gandhi himself at that time did not. View quote
George Orwell