Autobiography Quotes

When you write an autobiography, it has to be authentic.

'Masquerade' is the autobiography of Wyclef Jean. A lot of people know me through my work with Carlos Santana or Destiny's Child, winning all those Grammy Awards, but you do not know what is going on inside me.

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.

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

My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

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

Traffic' was an album that had a significant amount of songs. It was not complete and I felt didn't fully represent me as a person or as the artist I want to be and so when I started the writing process for 'The Autobiography' I was really turning a corner in my life.

The Too Short albums are not the autobiography of Todd Shaw.

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

'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.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

I really didn't talk about my sexuality until I wrote my autobiography.

I didn't want to sugarcoat anything. I wanted to make an honest story. Of course, to write a real autobiography, you've got to tell the downside.

My autobiography would be 'Loves music, loves art, works hard, writes music, tours the world, makes records.'

People have asked me about doing an autobiography, but I don't think my life is that interesting.

It's a presumptuous thing to write one's autobiography, but this is really an effort in the deepest sense to explore the struggle of a tortured individual to be himself in a hostile society.

All of my plays are deeply autobiographical. But it's not straight autobiography.

I visited an asylum to observe expressions of the mentally disturbed and to get my body language right for the blind girl's role. I visited the blind school, read the autobiography of Helen Keller, and watched a number of films from 'Scent of a Woman' to 'Anurag,' 'Fanaa' and 'Black.'

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

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

I've read 'Autobiography of a Yogi' at different ages and interpret something new each time.

I was doing a show in L.A. called 'Celebrity Autobiography,' where celebrities read excerpts from other celebrities' books and hang themselves with their own rope.

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.

Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week.

There is a tendency to presume autobiography in fiction by women or minorities. Guys named Jonathan write universal stories, while there's this sense that everyone else is just fictionalizing their own small experiences.

I like inventing things when I write rather than autobiography.

I would be happy presenting our albums as part of a joint autobiography.

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.