Autobiography Quotes

A home should be an intimate autobiography of the things that you like. One of the things I'm so keen on expressing is that, if you don't do it for yourself, if you're always seeking affirmation from outside, you'll never have a home. It'll just be a house.

One of the more fatuous remarks I've heard in recent days is that 'My Life,' Clinton's autobiography, is too long and, at almost 1,000 pages, short it is not. But this man was for eight years the President of the most powerful country on earth.

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

Film songs have so many creative limitations, but a private album is like an autobiography that reflects your state of mind.

'Off With Their Heads' by Frances Marion. I love a showbusiness autobiography - and this one resonates because it's written by one of the great Hollywood screenwriters.

You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.

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

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.