Autobiography Quotes

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'

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.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

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 the story of how a man thinks he lived.

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.

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.

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.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.

I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will, but you know what? There's time for that because I'd like to have the whole story.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and a biography, 'The Grocer's Daughter.'

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

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.

I had said before that I'd never write an autobiography because I've been around, and there's a lot that I've seen and heard that stays with me. That's just mine. I didn't want to do a kiss-and-tell, as some of my peers have.

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 have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

One of the more fatuous remarks I've heard in recent days is that 'My Life,' Clinton's autobiography, is too long and, at almost 1,000 pages, short it is not. But this man was for eight years the President of the most powerful country on earth.

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

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

I have a children's book already out and 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.