#autobiography

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

— Samuel Goldwyn

#after #anyone #autobiography #dead #i

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

#always #any #assigned #autobiography #aversion

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

— Kathy Griffin

#autobiography #biography #called #central #comedy

Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible. ↗

— John Grigg

#autobiography #common #hardly #less #now

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

— Philip Guedalla

#autobiography #other #people #telling #telling the truth

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

— Stephen Hawking

#because #become #i #left #privacy

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. ↗

— Humphrey Carpenter

#form #lying #most #probably #respectable

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

— Quentin Crisp

#form #installment #last #missing #obituary

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#biography #death #like #off #own

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#autobiography #book #collage #fragments #insane