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Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.
Ibn Said's autobiography is an extraordinary work, and his story is one that's absolutely crucial to tell.
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx.
Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.
My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere.
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
My autobiography would be 'Loves music, loves art, works hard, writes music, tours the world, makes records.'
When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.
I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.
It's very important to me I get my autobiography out before I die and someone else writes it and screws up my life.
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
I had many doubts while writing my autobiography. I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested to read about my life.
I have Peter O'Toole's autograph on a first-edition copy of his autobiography that I acquired under false pretenses.
I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
In his new autobiography, 'Capital Gaines,' Chip talks about the farm work - and he says he does, in fact, do it himself.
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.
What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
[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.
Film songs have so many creative limitations, but a private album is like an autobiography that reflects your state of mind.
My dad always jokes that if I ever write an autobiography, which I'm not going to, it'll be called 'It's Tough in the Middle.'
I was going to write an autobiography once. I started writing it, and then I thought, 'No, let them dig around when I'm dead.'
If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it exaggerated.
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.
My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.
My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'
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.
I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.
I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!
I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.
In fact Sarah Palin has created more jobs than Obama has. She created eleven jobs fact-checking at the AP just for the Palin autobiography.
biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.
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.
'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.
My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.
A novel, especially a first novel, is... really an emotional autobiography. All these emotions I'm embarrassed at having had, I've written about.
The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.
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.
Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.
If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.
'Dreams from My Father' was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work of historical fiction.
If you publish Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography, no one will read it but if it's Madhuri Dixit's or Madhubala's autobiography people will come and read it.
I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.
Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.
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.