Autobiographical Works Quotes

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.

All my works over the years have been autobiographical in the sense they reflect some part of my life, although I have fictionalised them to an extent.

'One Minus One' and 'Barcelona, 1975' are more or less autobiographical.

I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.

I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential autobiographies.

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

I love watching old movies, and I read a lot of autobiographies.

The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.

Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12.

What I wish is that people would look beyond the tribbles and see I've written some other books that I really would like people to notice. There's 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' there's 'The Martian Child,' which is about my son and the adoption. There's 'The War Against The Chtorr,' which is my magnum opus, my great epic story.