Autobiographer Quotes

#1. Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between the lines, spars with his reader and potential judge.

Erik Erikson

#2. The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much.

Russell Baker

#3. I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred.

Salman Rushdie

#4. She had all day every day to figure out some decent and satisfying way to live, and yet all she ever seemed to get for all her choices and all her freedom was more miserable. The autobiographer is almost forced to the conclusion that she pitied herself for being so free.

Jonathan Franzen

#5. Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.

Donal Henahan

#6. In moments of exhaustion, I think for some reason of writing an autobiography
proper work for tired artists
but every autobiographer must secretly believe he has triumphed in life. Maybe, incidentally, this accounts for the paucity of women's autobiographies
they know better.

Arthur Miller

#7. All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.

William Ralph Inge

#8. This wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred. this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame.

Winston Churchill

#9. We did not hope for the same things, but we all hoped

Stephenie Meyer

#10. He that hath light within their own breast, may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day.

John Milton

#11. I like the way Nepalis point by pouting their lips; they reckon pointing with a finger is rude.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#12. Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you'd let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I've been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.

Jodi Picoult

#13. Quin stalked beside him, his anger a physical presence between them. Matheus named it Bob, and addressed imaginary questions to it to distract himself.

Amy Fecteau

#14. The mind knows ... that there is an action principle that governs how the world evolves from one moment to the next - that restricts our world's path to points that tell an internally consistent story.

Neal Stephenson

#15. I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.

E. M. Forster

#16. I could not help but think how fortunate we are when we have real friends, people we can count on and turn to and who are always glad to see us when we are lonely.

Mindy Warshaw Skolsky