I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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"The conscience of South Africa talks about her country's new racial order" (1998) by Dwight GarnerNadine Gordimer
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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
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I live to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure. ... I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself. ... I pay for this kind of attitude. I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.
J. D. Salinger
To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx.
Groucho Marx
I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.
Samuel Goldwyn
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
Evelyn Waugh
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