A Quote by John McEnroe

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.

John McEnroe

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John McEnroe
American - Tennis Player
Born: February 16, 1959

I thought it would be more interesting to make a musical autobiography than an actual autobiography.

Ian Brown

I love to read autobiographies. [What is your favorite autobiography?] the autobiography of Coach John Wooden. Everybody has a struggle so it's about seeing how they overcome it and be the best they can.

Meb Keflezighi

If you believe the past can't be changed, you haven't read a celebrity's autobiography.

Sam Ewing

to look back on one's life is to experience the capriciousness of memory. ... the past is not static. It can be relived only in memory, and memory is a device for forgetting as well as remembering. It, too, is not immutable. It rediscovers, reinvents, reorganizes. Like a passage of prose it can be revised and repunctuated. To that extent, every autobiography is a work of fiction and every work of fiction an autobiography.

P. D. James

Very few people have actually had a chance to see the raw material that was going to comprise these three chapters [of Malcolm X Autobiography]. The missing political testament that should have been in the autobiography, but isn't.

Manning Marable

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

J. M. Coetzee

I knew Gandhi only as a freedom fighter. It is only after reading his autobiography that I realized what a man he was.

Rohini Hattangadi

Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

Doris Lessing

The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.

Salman Rushdie

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

Thomas Szasz

There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies

Jeanette Winterson

The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition.

Mason Cooley

My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.

Karrine Steffans

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

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

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.

George Orwell

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