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
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. - Evelyn Waugh
Advice is autobiography. - J.R. Rim
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
Anyone with an autobiography is almost definitely an evil piece of shit. - Brian K. Vaughan
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. - Samuel Goldwyn
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
Let your autobiography contain these words; "I was able to think positively, love affectionately and work efficiently". Thinking, loving and working are what make us different from animals and trees. - Israelmore Ayivor
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. - John Berger
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. - Oscar Wilde
The course of life is unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance. - Rabbi Abraham Heschel
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. - Oscar Wilde
I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography. - Steven Wright
We distance ourselves for protection,Wear scarves when it’s cold. What seems most outlandish in our autobiography Is what really happened. - Steve Abbott
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. - Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. - Philip Guedalla
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. - Philip Guedalla
Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see each other in life."[As quoted in Elia Kazan's autobiography, A Life (1988)] - Tennessee Williams
You are not yourself in autobiography. It is never going to be you, it is only words on a page. Memories are unreliable, so adding the magic of imagination will make your story come alive. - K.H. Rennie
One of the greatest gifts in this world is the ability to make others smile. - The Unauthorized Autobiography of Jonathan Fisher - J.E.B. Spredemann