A Quote by Thomas Szasz

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

Thomas Szasz

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Thomas Szasz
American - Psychologist
April 15, 1920 - September 8, 2012

I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.

Carolyn Wells

Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That's what you could say about it.

William Golding

Siamese twins are interesting because they are the only people who can write a biography and an autobiography at the same time.

Demetri Martin

Biography always has fulfiled this role. Robinson Crusoe is a biography, as is Tom Jones. You can go through the whole range of the novel, and you will find it is biography. The only difference between one example and the other is that sometimes it's a partial biography and sometimes it's a total biography. Clarissa, for example, is a partial biography of Clarissa and a partial biography of Lovelace. In other words, it doesn't follow Lovelace from when he is in the cradle, though it takes him to the grave.

William Golding

An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.

Graham Greene

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

V. S. Naipaul

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

Fay Weldon

I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.

Kate Fleetwood

I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.

Kathy Griffin

The transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged, but it is the only explanation for biography's status as a popular genre.

Janet Malcolm

biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.

Linda Simon

I was kind of relieved with the way the book [The Proud Highway] came out. It's beyond an autobiography or a biography. I never knew what was going to come up next.

Hunter S. Thompson

On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it.

Paul Murray Kendall

Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won't go away hungry, but it's not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.

Christopher Buckley

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

Carlos Fuentes

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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