Autobiography Quotes
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.
Herbert Samuel
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
W. H. Auden
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
Federico Fellini
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
George Orwell
People once said they were "in" psychoanalysis, meaning they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their autobiographies.
R. Z. Sheppard
I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography
Stephen Wright
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.
Fulton Oursler
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography
Federico Fellini
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography
Evelyn Waugh
On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it.
Paul Murray Kendall
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
A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.
Fawn M. Brodie
