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She brought a book that was already inscribed to me, it was her autobiography, ‘No Bed of Roses.’ She said, ‘I want you to read this book. It’s me.’. – Bill Cassara	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It was her autobiography, ‘No Bed of Roses.’ She said, ‘I want you to read this book. It’s me.’. – Bill Cassara	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
This feels like autobiography, when you live through a book, it almost becomes the landscape of your inner life. ... It becomes part of you, in a profound way. – Lady Bird	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning. – Philip Roth	added by anonymous 9 years ago
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	added by anonymous 9 years ago
I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead. – Samuel Goldwyn	added by anonymous 9 years ago
If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind. – Salman Rushdie	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. – Hilaire Belloc	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. – Evelyn Waugh	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. – Philip Guedalla	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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 Orwell	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance. – Abraham J. Heschel	added by anonymous 13 years ago
One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates. – Helen Keller	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. – Samuel Goldwyn	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. – Philip Guedalla	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility. – Katherine Paterson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote. – Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko	added by anonymous 14 years ago

She brought a book that was already inscribed to me, it was her autobiography, ‘No Bed of Roses.’ She said, ‘I want you to read this book. It’s me.’.

– Bill Cassara

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It was her autobiography, ‘No Bed of Roses.’ She said, ‘I want you to read this book. It’s me.’.

– Bill Cassara

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

This feels like autobiography, when you live through a book, it almost becomes the landscape of your inner life. ... It becomes part of you, in a profound way.

– Lady Bird

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.

– Philip Roth

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.

– Samuel Goldwyn

added by anonymous
9 years ago

If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.

– Salman Rushdie

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

– Hilaire Belloc

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

– Evelyn Waugh

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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

– Philip Guedalla

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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 Orwell

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.

– Abraham J. Heschel

added by anonymous
13 years ago

One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates.

– Helen Keller