A Quote by Samuel Goldwyn

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Funny After Anyone Autobiography Dead Should Think Until Write

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Samuel Goldwyn
American - Producer
August 17, 1882 - January 31, 1974

Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I always end by falsifying and fictionalizing—I’m a liar, in fact. That means I’m a novelist, after all. I write about what I know.

Alberto Moravia

I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.

Richard Simmons

I'll write records until I'm dead. And then maybe even after that!

Alanis Morissette

Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.

W. P. Kinsella

I was going to write an autobiography once. I started writing it, and then I thought, 'No, let them dig around when I'm dead.'

Jeff Beck

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

Mark Twain

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

Philip Roth

When I write my autobiography after 20-25 years, I want 2014 to be the weakest year of my life.

Sajid Nadiadwala

To write an autobiography, you've got to expose other people. I hope to get out of this world as gracefully as possible, without embarrassing anyone.

Cary Grant

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

Diane Keaton

I'd have a stable full of Arabian steeds, rooms piled with books, and I'd write out of a magic inkstand, so that my works should be as famous as Laurie's music. I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle,-something heroic, or wonderful,-that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all, some day. I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous; that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.

Louisa May Alcott

I'm an expert in baseball and I don't even have a job. I'm an expert, more so than a lot of people out there. It should be my career until I'm dead. I should be one of the instructors. I think I've earned it.

Barry Bonds

I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.

George Noory

I think, for me, there's The Book I Should Write and The Book I Wanted to Write - and they weren't the same book. The Book I Should Write should be realistic, since I studied English Lit. It should be cultural. It should reflect where I am today. The Book I Wanted to Write would probably include flying women, magic, and all of that.