I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", and I think I’ve understood them. They’re about girls, right? Just kidding. But I have to say my all-time favorite book is Johnny Cash’s autobiography "Cash" by Johnny Cash.
Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.
Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.
I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.
When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.
The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.
Nature did not make me willowy.
Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I always end by falsifying and fictionalizing—I’m a liar, in fact. That means I’m a novelist, after all. I write about what I know.
I have a song I wrote called “Autobiography. ” I came from a very intense living situation, with having a parent on drugs and not having a lot of money. So I always want to talk about the real things. But I think 90 percent of my music, I want it to be 'feel-good music'. I'm already recording tracks for my album, but when it comes time to actually say, 'this is the album,' I may be in a completely different space than I'm in right now.
Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression.
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.
I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.
Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
I don't want to get into autobiographies, I don't want to talk about myself.
I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.
I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.