Autobiography Quotes

"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

"All autobiography is self-indulgent."
-Daphne du Maurier

"Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists."
-Donal Henahan

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

"The course of life in unpredictable. No one can write his autobiography in advance."
-Abraham J. Heschel

"A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote."
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko

"No, no, I will write no autobiography. I do not believe that someone can write a perfectly honest autobiography."
-Christa Wolf

"An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived."
-Herbert Samuel

"Every artist writes his own autobiography."
-Havelock Ellis

"I have a children's book already out and my autobiography."
-Della Reese

"Autobiography of My Dead Brother."
-Walter Dean

"This is not my autobiography. It just talks about my journey until now."
-Ritu Beri