A Quote by Quentin Crisp

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

Quentin Crisp

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Quentin Crisp
English - Writer
December 25, 1908 - November 21, 1999

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

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

What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?

Ian Mckellen

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.

Studs Terkel

Eclectic is a word that appears almost as much as the word smarmy in rock journalism and I've come to the fact, just as a personal side, this reminds of Oscar Wilde's insight that criticism is the highest form of autobiography. I think that's exactly what rock journalism has attempted to do, to celebrate its autobiography at my expense.

Van Dyke Parks

All criticism is a form of autobiography

Oscar Wilde

You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don't think anyone is born bad.

Benicio Del Toro

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

Humphrey Carpenter

At last we've seen the first installment of Joss Whedon's new web series, 'Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog,' and it's sweeter than we'd ever imagined.

Annalee Newitz

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

John Berger

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

Jill Ker Conway

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

Margaret Atwood

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

Ian Brown

Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.

Pat Brown

If I basically view criticism as sort of an interesting form of writing about oneself, an interesting form of autobiography, then I don't feel any pressure to have any kind of authoritative, universal voice. That kind of thing has never interested me.

Chuck Klosterman

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