#biography

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

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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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An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived. ↗

— Herbert Samuel

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John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign. ↗

— Mark Shields

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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 is no there there. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

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

— Pamela Stephenson

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