Top 59 Quotes About Autobiography Writing
#1. My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.
Mia Farrow
#2. People naturally impose a narrative story-line upon their experiences. Autobiographical writing allows a person to cast their experiences into a narrative thread and organize their thoughts based not upon conjecture but with applied reason.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#3. In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are.
Robert Penn Warren
#4. In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.
Boy George
#5. If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.
Nellie Melba
#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. Telling our personal story reveals the shape shifting landscape of our mind.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#8. If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your're writing fiction.
Shannon L. Alder
#9. One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.
Joseph Barbera
#10. The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman worked familiar territory - places I had lived, people I knew, my life as an actor in New York - and many were prompted by or grounded in personal experience.
Debra Dean
#11. One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts and gives the inmost motives. One of the most mendacious is autobiography.
Theodor Haecker
#12. A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography and autobiography, and so that will be my next thing.
Robert Dessaix
#13. There's something presumptuous in writing an autobiography, as if people's interest in your life is a given.
Simon Pegg
#14. Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its rewards were greater than I expected.
Dick Francis
#15. I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind of life permits a person the right to become his own subject?
Yiyun Li
#16. When I left the Senate in 1979, there were several publishers who had approached me about writing an autobiography, and I knew that politicians write books for many reasons, but at that time, I just thought I wasn't ready and my story wasn't over, and I knew I had a new life ahead of me.
Edward Brooke
#17. The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#18. All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
J.M. Coetzee
#19. The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level.
David Brooks
#20. Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.
Robert Breault
#21. To write an autobiography, you've got to expose other people. I hope to get out of this world as gracefully as possible, without embarrassing anyone.
Cary Grant
#22. But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader and a citizen, I don't want to live in that world.
Katherine Boo
#23. Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography,
but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
Katherine Paterson
#24. The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.
Agatha Christie
#25. If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism in America".
Frederick Lenz
#26. There is always some sleight of hand going on in writing autobiography. So much has to be left out, especially things that might hurt or dismay people. But in a novel one can say everything. The novel is often autobiography distilled and / or transcended.
May Sarton
#27. I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one reason why I'm not going to do it. If young Posh Spice can write her autobiography, then I don't want to write one!
Anita Pallenberg
#28. I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
Nadine Gordimer
#29. Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the passing of time giving an X-ray quality to the eye.
Janet Frame
#30. I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.
Clifton Fadiman
#31. I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be five volumes before I even got into the band!
Ringo Starr
#32. I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
James Frey
#33. These then are some of my first memories. But of course as an account of my life they are misleading, because the things one does not remember are as important; perhaps they are more important.
Virginia Woolf
#34. Attempting to express a person's objective reality and subjective state of mind with the written word is an endless task because writing alters our perception of reality and amends our mental equilibrium.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#35. I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography.
June Foray
#36. Of course it's fun writing about an egomaniac, but I know there are going to be reviewers who've never met me, who don't know anything about me, who are going to say this is autobiography: he's just changed the names of a few people, and the rest is totally as it was.
Michel Faber
#37. Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
John Berger
#38. Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela announced Tuesday he will begin writing his autobiography. He spent 25 years in prison before being elected to public office. In America, we do it the other way around.
Argus Hamilton
#39. I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.
Richard Simmons
#40. Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
Bernard Berenson
#42. Harper Collins gave me a letter of intent saying that they want me to pen down my autobiography. When I was recollecting the incidents of my life for that, I selected only those incidents which were turning points in my life. I staged it instead of writing it.
Anupam Kher
#43. When I was writing my autobiography, these songs came up from time to time which were important to me, and I realized that what they really represented was, they'd come from this age of shared music.
Greg Lake
#44. Old Timer's Disease
The celebrity
with Alzheimer's
sued himself for writing his
unauthorized autobiography.
Beryl Dov
#45. I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I wanted to expand them beyond superheroes and talking animals. And I knew that was going to take a long time. But I just started writing an autobiography about my quotidian life.
Harvey Pekar
#46. Happy 3rd anniversary Navigating Life's Roadways!
This book is a charge and blessing from above.
Writing it has been on my radar for a while.
Deborah L. Parker
#47. I'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. I know nothing at all (I'm happy to say) about having had a cold and withholding mother, about being divorced. The more I've been writing novels, each novel I've written has become successively less grounded in anything approaching autobiography.
Anna Quindlen
#48. Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you
Mae West
#49. I have no plans to write an autobiography, I will leave that to others. I'm sure they will turn me into a homosexual or a Nazi spy or something else.
Cary Grant
#50. I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later.
Jenni Rivera
#51. I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.
Pablo Picasso
#52. When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.
Alessandra Stanley
#53. Siamese twins are interesting because they are the only people who can write a biography and an autobiography at the same time.
Demetri Martin
#54. The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about in my Autobiography.
Siddharth Katragadda
#55. To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx.
Groucho Marx
#56. I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.
Richard Hell
#57. As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir of death.
Craig Briggs
#58. I had a few people ask me if I might one day write my own autobiography. I just told them, 'It's already being written; through my books.
T.S. Wieland
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
