Autobiography quotes

◆ An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

- George Orwell100

◆ Every artist writes his own autobiography.

- Havelock Ellis99

◆ Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.

- Donal Henahan99

◆ Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

- Henry Louis Mencken99

◆ For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

- Robert Penn Warren99

◆ People once said they were "in" psychoanalysis, meaning they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their autobiographies.

- R Z Sheppard99

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

- Samuel Goldwyn99

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

- Philip Guedalla99

◆ All autobiography is self-indulgent.

- Daphne Du Maurier99

◆ Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.

- Lord Altrincham99