#autobiography

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

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I had said before that I'd never write an autobiography because I've been around, and there's a lot that I've seen and heard that stays with me. That's just mine. I didn't want to do a kiss-and-tell, as some of my peers have. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

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

— Samuel Goldwyn

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

— Philip Guedalla

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I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

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Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. ↗

— Humphrey Carpenter

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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

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I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't. ↗

— Philip Roth

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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. ↗

— William Trevor

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

— Thomas Szasz

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