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When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography.

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

I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.

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