#autobiography

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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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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An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

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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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Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography. ↗

— Arthur Smith

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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. ↗

— Courtney Thorne Smith

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I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography. ↗

— Rick Springfield

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There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

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Tell the Truth. Make it Special. Life’s a Beach. And then you Drown. Good Ideas cost no more than Bad Ones. ↗

— Justin Allison

#automotive #social-history #life

Every American autobiography, someone once said, is about one thing—escape. Look into the frightened heart of an American life, and you’ll find a compulsion to flee—a seed planted in the national character at the start by those ships sailing out of Europe and landing on our shores. — Teller: A Novel ↗

— Frederick Weisel

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