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I like to read. Autobiographies. -- Janet Jackson
Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two. -- Ellery Sedgwick
Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction . -- A. S. Byatt
Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself. -- Paul Stanley
[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that. -- Deborah Kerr
Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I love memoirs and autobiographies in general. -- Brett Davern
I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life. -- Ranbir Kapoor
I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists. -- Peter Jackson
I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself. -- Rollie Fingers
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives. -- Marilyn Ferguson
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. -- John Ruskin
I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like. -- Meg White
I love books and the latest autobiographies. I'm a Gemini and love being with people, but then again, I love my own company, which is when I read most. -- Cilla Black
I think books, novels and autobiographies have a power to touch people far more personally than films do, so there's a bit more of a responsibility when you then dramatise it. -- Robert Sheehan
I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it. -- Eddie Trunk
I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc. -- George Seaton
The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time. -- Harold Acton
Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies. -- Matthew McGrory
Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie. -- Gary Kemp
In the mid-nineties, I quit my job as a senior feature writer at 'The Mail' on Sunday in the U.K. and became a 'ghost writer,' collaborating with politicians, pop stars, psychologists, soldiers and sporting legends who needed help in penning their autobiographies. -- Michael Robotham
I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one reason why I'm not going to do it. If young Posh Spice can write her autobiography, then I don't want to write one! -- Anita Pallenberg
I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign correspondents of the time, histories of the time written contemporaneously or just afterwards, autobiographies and biographies of people who were there, present-day histories of the period, and novels written during those times. -- Alan Furst
I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I was in a Repertory Company. My hero was Eva Le Gallienne, who was a great theater actress at the turn of the century who created her own company, and she wrote these hilarious autobiographies at the time. -- Annette Bening
All autobiographies are alibi-ographies. -- Clare Boothe Luce
The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies. -- T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies. -- Gelett Burgess
Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies. -- Elia Kazan
Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies. -- Steven Pinker
I don't want to get into autobiographies, I don't want to talk about myself. -- Rollie Fingers
All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies. -- George Bernard Shaw
Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer. -- Jeff Dunham
I do like a good mystery. I'm reading Edgar Allan Poe now. I also like autobiographies. -- James Van Praagh
What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great. -- Miles Franklin
The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to show off. -- T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
In novels and autobiographies, the first positive move that the immigrant makes towards assimilation is to buy himself a suit of city clothes. -- Jonathan Raban
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. Sheppard
There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another novel. -- John Dos Passos
I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like. -- Meg White
I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential autobiographies. -- Dan Rather
I learned a lot of things about literature talking to people at the publishing company. Did you know that about 90 percent of celebrity autobiographies are ghostwritten? -- John Cleese
Sometimes, with autobiographies, it turns into a bit of score-settling. And looking back, I don't feel the way I did then, and you kind of grow up and let it go behind you. -- Marc Almond
I love to read autobiographies. [What is your favorite autobiography?] the autobiography of Coach John Wooden. Everybody has a struggle so it's about seeing how they overcome it and be the best they can. -- Meb Keflezighi

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