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Autobiography Quotes
"A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so."
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"If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography."
"An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory."
"I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone."
"I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!"
"I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography."
"One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead."
"I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography."
"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."
"I believe there's only one autobiography you can do."
"I have a children's book already out and my autobiography."
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead."
"Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography."
"In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail."
"There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography."
"An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived."
"I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent."
"And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years."
"I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography."
"Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying."
"Every artist writes his own autobiography."
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