Autobiography Quotes

I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as a memoir. They're essays; they're not an autobiography. Sloane Crosley
Myself Think Insane Memoir About Know Sounds Essays Just Autobiography Being Them Really
I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography. Stephen Adly Guirgis
Good Think Writes Lot Any Going Autobiography Anyone Anything
'White Boy from Sacramento' is just sort of a tongue-in-cheek autobiography. I hoped it came out a little humorous, but it's really all true. Timothy B. Schmit
White Humorous Out Hoped Sacramento True Sort Boy Came Just Autobiography Little Really Tongue-In-Cheek
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. V. S. Naipaul
Will Writer Always Autobiography Even Biography
My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries. W. E. B. Du Bois
World Illustration Autobiography Race Centuries Meant
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. W. H. Auden
Ego Every Characters Self Concerned Don Quixote Autobiography Quixote Two
There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes. William Trevor
Own Pain Pleasure Distress Case Author Goes Autobiography As Far As Fiction Far Element Based
Ibn Said's autobiography is an extraordinary work, and his story is one that's absolutely crucial to tell. Rhiannon Giddens
Work Extraordinary Tell Absolutely Crucial Said His Autobiography Story
The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life. Salman Rushdie
Life I See Tell Memoir Tries See Primarily Between Particular Account Autobiography Difference As Far As Whereas Story Far Full
Where's the mileage in an autobiography? Anyone who writes one inevitably casts themselves as a hero, and I'm not about to do that. John Cooper Clarke
Hero About Casts Writes Inevitably Autobiography Anyone Themselves Mileage Who
Since I've started working on my autobiography, I'm going to slow down work. I've decided to reduce my workload by not signing every film that comes my way. Brahmanandam
Work Slow Down Every Way Signing Since Reduce Going Autobiography Decided Working Film Started
Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.' Maya Angelou
Saying Wonderful Once Seductive Frederick Following About Talking Narrative First-Person Always Got Tradition Singular Autobiography Established Meaning Realized Speaking Slave
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