quotes about Autobiography
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The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.
-- Agatha Christie -
History is the autobiography of a madman.
-- Alexander Herzen -
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.
-- Brett Davern -
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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.
-- Celia Johnson -
All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.
-- Clare Boothe Luce -
I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.
-- Courtney Thorne SmithSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.
-- Della Reese -
... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.
-- Elizabeth Bowen -
Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.
-- Gelett Burgess -
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Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.
-- George Orwell -
American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.
-- Harvey Pekar -
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
-- Hilaire Belloc -
Photos are our autobiography, a way of telling who we are.
-- Jan Phillips -
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There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies
-- Jeanette Winterson -
Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else.
-- Jim Butcher -
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
-- John Berger -
I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.
-- John McEnroe -
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One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.
-- Joseph BarberaSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.
-- Karrine Steffans -
I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.
-- 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.
-- Lisel Mueller -
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Story , finally, is humanity 's autobiography .
-- Lloyd Alexander -
A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.
-- Mary Antin -
there is no truly honest autobiography.
-- Mary Roberts RinehartSource : Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart
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I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.
-- Megan Martha WhiteSource : "The sweetheart deal". Interview with Keith Cameron, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2003.
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What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.
-- Miles FranklinSource : Miles Franklin (2012). “My Career Goes Bung”, p.28, Allen & Unwin
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Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.
-- Pedro Almodovar -
Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.
-- Robert PinskySource : "How My Mind Writes Poems" by Robert Pinsky, bigthink.com.
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My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
-- Sidney Poitier -
The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies.
-- T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings -
Let's face it, it's only called Scrubs because I'm saving 'Zach Braff' for my autobiography.
-- Zach Braff -
With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen as privileged.
-- Kate Zambreno -
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My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere.
-- Kola Boof -
biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.
-- Linda Simon -
I don't want to get into autobiographies, I don't want to talk about myself.
-- Rollie Fingers -
I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.
-- Stephen Adly Guirgis -