No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

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

I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.

I got out of autobiography because my story is I was famous it was hard for me I got into therapy. I had trouble with food I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power because democracy shapes our lives.

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

I had lost faith in biography.

The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography 'Why Not the Best? ' published in 1975.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

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