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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

In fact Sarah Palin has created more jobs than Obama has. She created eleven jobs fact-checking at the AP just for the Palin autobiography.

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.

But, Tarantino has seen all of my movies. He's seen my good stuff, he's seen my bad stuff, he's seen the ones I directed, he's read my autobiography. There's an awful lot of things he knows about me, all of which I think had something to do with his casting.

David Carradine

Movies

Autobiography

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

Humphrey Carpenter

Autobiography

Lying

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.

I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.

Jeffrey Bernard

Autobiography

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

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

Hilaire Belloc

Autobiography

Nothing

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

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

Joseph Barbera

Autobiography

Writing

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

W. H. Auden