Dorothea Dix Quotes

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

Even I can't talk about myself for an hour.

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

Anytime you're sitting there writing a book about yourself, it's a pretty self-fulfilling prophecy, I guess.

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

Everything I write is about me.

I'm really bad at describing my own life.

I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

I feel like I have a kind of mirror blindness where it's hard for me to characterize or analyze my own work. I suspect I'm not unique in this regard.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves.

People write memoirs - this is my take, anyway - out of a great sense of self-importance.

I think only Kanye can truly understand Kanye.

There's a tendency when you write a book to portray yourself as the hero.

You can't supervise your own history.

I'm not the sort of person who reads much about himself.

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass along at my back - I get glimpses of them in the mirror - and whenever they say or do anything that can help advertise me and flatter me and raise me in my own estimation, I set these things down in my autobiography.

Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.

That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

I think I probably think about myself as an actor, which is the way most people do. I think I'm good, I don't think I'm great. I think I would hire somebody else to play me in the movie about me.

Should you create a protagonist based directly on yourself? The problem with this - and it is a very large problem - is that almost no one can view himself objectively on the page. As the writer, you're too close to your own complicated makeup.

When I watch myself in movies I go, 'My God.'

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.