Autobiography Quotes

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. (Federico Fellini)
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. View quote
Samuel Goldwyn
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. View quote
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. View quote
W. H. Auden
What is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding? It is the deepest part of autobiography. View quote
Robert Penn Warren
Every artist writes his own autobiography. View quote
Havelock Ellis
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. View quote
Quentin Crisp
I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't. View quote
Philip Roth
I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography. (Steven Wright)
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. View quote
Roald Dahl
Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money one has earned, those being the two data most eagerly sought by readers; all the rest is legitimate to reveal. View quote
Robert Silverberg
To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx. View quote
Groucho Marx
Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning. View quote
Philip Roth
Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life. View quote
Taryn Manning
In fact Sarah Palin has created more jobs than Obama has. She created eleven jobs fact-checking at the AP just for the Palin autobiography. (Ann Coulter)
This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions. View quote
Bob Kane
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats. View quote
George Orwell
I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information. View quote
Diana Ross
Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography. View quote
Lloyd Alexander