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Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else. — Jim Butcher

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This book is a charge and blessing from above.
Writing it has been on my radar for a while. — Deborah L. Parker

I don't need no Smith and Wesson, man, I got Merriam and Webster. — Avi Steinberg

I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them. — Kate Fleetwood

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. — Oscar Wilde

I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day. — David Millar

Live your dreams, not your fears! A.Hume — Albina Hume

Since I'm not dead yet I can talk back. — Amy Tan

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world — H.L. Mencken

Advice is autobiography. — J.R. Rim

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. — Evelyn Waugh

The memoirs of call girls are much in demand these days - a millennial craze. — Dimitra Ekmektsis

I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone. — Celia Johnson

I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information. — Diana Ross

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story. — Beth Ditto

All criticism is a form of autobiography — Oscar Wilde

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years. — Joan Collins

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography. — Stephen Adly Guirgis

I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography. — Gunther Schuller

If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography. — P. J. O'Rourke

Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you — Mae West

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

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going. — Harvey Pekar

I caught a cold and didn't have time to work on my autobiography. — Julie Doucet

I have no plans to write an autobiography, I will leave that to others. I'm sure they will turn me into a homosexual or a Nazi spy or something else. — Cary Grant

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

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. — George Orwell

Mary [Tyler Moore] was absolutely brilliant ... She is a fabulous actress. She can do anything. — Gavin MacLeod

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that. — Deborah Kerr

I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography. — Mark Twain

In autobiography, as in all literature, what actually happened is less important than what the author can manage to persuade his audience to believe — Salman Rushdie

If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told. — Albert Murray

Monotony is the only reward of the cautious — A. Somebody

None of this makes any sense."
"I'm beginning to think I should make that the title of my autobiography. — Rachel Hawkins

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography. — J.M. Coetzee

Everyone has a home but me. — Gloria Steinem

The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level. — David Brooks

Love and respect are above any law — Uri Jerzy Nachimson

Siamese twins are interesting because they are the only people who can write a biography and an autobiography at the same time. — Demetri Martin

It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come — Malcolm X

I read Gloria Swanson's autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time. — Berenice Bejo

I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things. — Clive Barker

Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written. — Tom Butler-Bowdon

Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression. — Henry James

To work with God's happiness bubbling in the soul is to carry a portable paradise within you wherever you go. — Paramahansa Yogananda

A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however, eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest though poor. — Bertrand Russell

Autobiography, we know, is flawed from the moment the nib of the pen touches the parchment. — Zia Haider Rahman

Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion. — Anne Carson

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left. — Stephen Hawking

All autobiography is fiction. — Sandra Tsing Loh

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous. — Tom Stoppard

If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism in America". — Frederick Lenz

I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject. — Clifton Fadiman

An autobiography held out the promise of hearing truths that only friends confess to one another but are knowledge you need to live. — Phyllis Rose

Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself. — Robert Breault

A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results. — Nikola Tesla

Every artist writes his own autobiography. — Havelock Ellis

Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful. — Robert A. Heinlein

I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now ready to tell my story. — Cilla Black

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives. — Diane Keaton

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream. — Clarence Darrow

Watching large mammals living their ordinary life in the jungle is extraordinary — Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. — Mary Antin

Sometimes you don't get a second chance. You need to take a chance when you have the opportunity. Always. — Gavin MacLeod

He was eight years older than I was, most of the calendar year. — Joyce Carol Oates

It's the truth, though rarely admitted, that every autobiographical work has a touch of fiction and every fiction has a touch of autobiography. — Santosh Kumar Das

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. — V.S. Naipaul

Better to keep a good conscience with an empty purse, than to get a bad opinion of myself, with a full one. — David Crockett

No child should have to see all that I have seen — Brooke Stonex

I'm reading Keith Richards' autobiography. I didn't even know he could read, never mind write. Probably all recorded off a Marshall amplifier. — Sienna McQuillen

All autobiographies are alibi-ographies. — Clare Boothe Luce

My autobiography was simply the story of my life. — Sidney Poitier

What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great. — Miles Franklin

I don,t just want success for my self ,I want my success to benefit others .
Osman Gulum — Osman Gulum

The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it. — Marcel Duchamp

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography. — Federico Fellini

The body never lies."
Martha Graham — Martha Graham

My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine. — Karrine Steffans

I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography. — Kathy Griffin

To me, that's the ultimate isolation - to be separated from my own mind. — James Patterson

The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote. — Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew

Those who tell their own story you know must be listened to with caution. — Jane Austen

I have a disease; I see language. — Roland Barthes

In retrospect, come to think of it, isn't everything seen in retrospect? — Marty Feldman

The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition. — Mason Cooley

Let's face it, it's only called Scrubs because I'm saving 'Zach Braff' for my autobiography. — Zach Braff

None of us understood that the body is a connected thing. — Lucy Grealy

Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education. — Liza Mundy

Definition of my alcoholism One was too many and twenty was not enough. — Johnny Mack

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

Your limits are somewhere up there, waiting for you to reach beyond infinity. — Arnold Henry

If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction. — Albert Camus

The autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Those is seek to profit from the torment of others will eventually pay the piper — Tony Alleyne

One day someone is going to read my autobiography and say Wow, what a horror novel — M.F. Moonzajer

Biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer. — Linda Simon

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — W. H. Auden

Memory, memoir, autobiography - lies, lies, all lies. — Rabih Alameddine

Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, which was Steve Jobs's favorite book. 9. — Vishen Lakhiani

Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils. — Rick Barnett