autobiographies

Meaning

of Autobiography

Examples

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 haven't read any of the autobiographies about me. Elizabeth Taylor

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

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

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

Most first novels are disguised autobiographies. This autobiography is a disguised novel. Clive James