Quotes about self

Following is our list of autobiography quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about memoir.

Quotes about life

Every artist writes his own autobiography. Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry. History is the autobiography of a madman. Damned if I'm going to say that. Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous.

A man's face is his autobiography meaning

It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight. I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

You write your life story by the choices you make. Your biography becomes your biology. This biography includes the totality of your choices, the things you feed your body - you thoughts, your actions, your food - the thing you feed your life. Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself? I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

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 and