autobiography

dad joke

adulting

complete mess

is always at play in any art. Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter... it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. Oscar Wilde

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood. Robert Pinsky

is a mirror of the age on which people can 'depend'.

A good autobiography is like a document: a mirror of the age on which people can 'depend.' In a novel, by contrast, it's not the facts that matter, but precisely what you add to the facts. Imre Kertesz

is an attractive genre to write in if for no other reason than that you're not dead.

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead. Joseph Barbera

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego. Tom Robbins

is an orphan form because it necessarily begins with a sense of being alone.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. John Berger

All autobiography is self-indulgent. Daphne du Maurier

is storytelling, and all writing is autobiography.

All autobiography is storytelling... all writing is autobiography. J. M. Coetzee

autobiography, n.Definitions

autobiography