I'm an avid biography reader.

Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.

John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

I really didn't talk about my sexuality until I wrote my autobiography.

As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.

A book is either autobiography or a novel.

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

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

Biography lends to death a new terror.

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.

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

I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!

If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told.

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

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' - you are inhabiting that 'I.'

Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia.

I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.

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