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 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.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

He traveled in order to come home.

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will, but you know what? There's time for that because I'd like to have the whole story.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.

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

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.