Definition of Autobiography

Autobiography

A biography written by the subject of it; memoirs of one's life written by one's self.

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Autobiography Quotations

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

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.
Steven Wright

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
Quentin Crisp

If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.
P. J. O'Rourke

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
Sidney Poitier

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

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.
Ann Coulter

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
Hilaire Belloc

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.
Mary J. Blige

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
Roald Dahl

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
Franklin P. Jones

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.
John McEnroe

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

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

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.
Harvey Pekar

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.
Joan Collins

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.
Rupert Murdoch

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

Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Havelock Ellis

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
John Berger

But, Tarantino has seen all of my movies. He's seen my good stuff, he's seen my bad stuff, he's seen the ones I directed, he's read my autobiography. There's an awful lot of things he knows about me, all of which I think had something to do with his casting.
David Carradine

I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.
Kathy Griffin

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

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.
Joseph Barbera

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.
Boris Becker

I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years.
Gunter Grass

After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.
Taryn Manning

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.
David Antin

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Autobiography Translations

autobiography in Dutch is autobiografie
autobiography in German is Autobiographie {f}, Autobiografie {f}

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