A Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it exaggerated.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Jean-Paul Sartre
French - Novelist
June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980

En France particulie' rement, les mots ont plus d'empire que les ide es. In France particularly, words reign over ideas.

Sydney Samuelson

In Les Mots I explain the origin of my madness, of my neurosis. This analysis may help the young who dream of writing.

Jean-Paul Sartre

If you publish Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography, no one will read it but if it's Madhuri Dixit's or Madhubala's autobiography people will come and read it.

Asrani

Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. [Fr., Ce que l'on concoit bien s'enonce clairement, Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisement.]

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

I wrote in Les Mots that "I have often thought against myself." That sentence has not been understood either. Critics have seen in it a confession of masochism. But that is how one should think: revolting against everything "inculcated'' that one may have within oneself.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

Humphrey Carpenter

Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers?

Jill Ker Conway

I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great name out of history you can pick who wasn't 'radical.

Sonia Johnson

Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!

Umberto Eco

A look of intelligence is what regularity of features is to women: it is a styule of beauty to which the most vain may aspire. [Fr., L'air spirituel est dans les hommes ce que la regularite des traits est dans les femmes: c'est le genre de beaute ou les plus vains puissent aspirer.]

Jean de la Bruyere

Traditional autobiography has generally had a poor press. The novelist Daphne du Maurier condemned all examples of this literary form as self-indulgent. Others have quipped that autobiography reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

Craig Venter

Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have at the moment of commemoration.

Walter Benjamin

Most drag queens dress up as super women, as an over exaggeration of the female form, because we like women, usually powerful women. I think that's why we are so over exaggerated; we are an amplification of the women who empowered us in our youth.

Sharon Needles

The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

Agatha Christie

As a health scientist at Columbia University, Les Roberts, pointed out, sooner or later people are going to be looking at a child in a wheelchair suffering from polio and will say 'the Americans did that to him'. So they continue policies which have similar effects i.e. organising the Taliban. This will come back to them too.

Noam Chomsky

Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.

Robert B. Parker

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