All autobiography is self-indulgent.

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

And I don't like books which are full of name dropping.

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley; again

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear.

Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better man or woman.

All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleepers brain and he is with them and part of them.

I am glad it cannot happen twice the fever of first love. For it is a fever and a burden too whatever the poets may say.

People who travel are always fugitives.

There is no going back in life, no return, no second chance. I cannot call back the spoken word or the accomplished deed.

All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them.

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.

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

If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.

This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.

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've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!

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

I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.

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.

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

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

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

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

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

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

I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.

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

In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator.

I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.

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.

There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

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

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.