Top Autobiography Quotes
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Samuel Goldwyn
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.
David Antin
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
Robert Penn Warren
Quentin Crisp 
John Berger 
Joan Collins 
Joseph Barbera 
P. J. O'Rourke 
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Samuel Goldwyn 
80% of people like this quote
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla
59% of people like this quote
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
59% of people like this quote
When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.
David Antin
59% of people like this quote
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
Robert Penn Warren
58% of people like this quote
One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.
Joseph Barbera
58% of people like this quote
I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will, but you know what? There's time for that because I'd like to have the whole story.
John Saxon
58% of people like this quote
I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!
Pat Morita
58% of people like this quote
Popular Autobiography Authors
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