Autobiography Quotes

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

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

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

I caught a cold and didn't have time to work on my autobiography.

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.

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.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator.

Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week.

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.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography.

The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into comedy and traces back every strand in my life that is relevant to that story. It's kind of an autobiography but isn't, as it stops about 25 years ago. It goes right up to the first time I do stand up.

I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

But, Tarantino has seen all of my movies. He's seen my good stuff, he's seen my bad stuff, he's seen the ones I directed, he's read my autobiography. There's an awful lot of things he knows about me, all of which I think had something to do with his casting.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

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.

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.