Autobiography Quotes
Putting an entire life into words.
These autobiography quotes range from serious reckonings with identity and history to lighter admissions of stalling on the project entirely. See Book quotes for more on the written word.
'Off With Their Heads' by Frances Marion. I love a showbusiness autobiography - and this one resonates because it's written by one of the great Hollywood screenwriters.
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My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
Art Quotes
All of my plays are deeply autobiographical. But it's not straight autobiography.
I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.
I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.
Book Quotes
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
Dead Quotes
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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.
When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'
