Autobiography Quotes

The dominant myth of the day seemed to be that anybody could do anything, even go to the moon. You c...

Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that...

..my father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn't understa...

It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing lea...

What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening - all bunk. No guar...

The poet gives his whole life such a voluntarily steep incline that it is impossible for it to exist...

...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by seve...

You can tell it any way you want, he said, you can be I or he or she or we or they or you and you wo...

It was one of those situations I often find myself in while traveling. Something's said by a strange...

Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.

It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular ex...

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

[His research into biblical criticism had lead him to the conclusion that most of what was contained...

...The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evi...

Everyone has a home but me.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

The Grim Reaper isn't grim at all; he's a life-saver. He isn't grim because he isn't anything. . . ....

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

I could hear my abandoned dreams making a racket in my soul.

[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty]One small autobiographical piece...

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography,but I have to turn it into fiction in o...

How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If ...

Listen: I don't have anything against autobiographies, so long as the writer has a penis that's twel...

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

Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the wor...

Thos who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

But there was no time to rest on my laurels.

When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of ...

If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills - than my...

These then are some of my first memories. But of course as an account of my life they are misleading...

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, th...

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all...

In the pre-war era when itinerant home-remedy salesmen still wandered the country, they had a tradit...

Why would any writer in her right mind ever consider making a movie instead? That's like going from ...

It’s a bit burned,” my mother would say apologetically at every meal, presenting you with a piece of...