Autobiography Quotes

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.

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.