“We must bear in mind that an autobiography reveals more about the mind set of its author than about factual occurrences.”

“As you would expect from a historian of Molony's distinction, his autobiography is written chastely, elegantly, self-critically and charitably.”

“While going through such varied sources, it is a great joy when one finds an autobiography or a biography or an unpublished piece of writing.”

“The famous playwright not only penned iconic plays, but he also revealed his deeply personal experiences in his memoirs, establishing himself as an acclaimed autobiographer.”

“In his boyhood, the autobiographer is an unreconstructed rustic who might have stepped out of a pastoral elegy of Virgil or Theocritus.”

“He is blessed as an autobiographer with an outstandingly strange and only fitfully happy childhood.”

“That autobio rocketed up the best-seller list, and so did every other one that used the Hook-and-Trigger.”

“One day they gave me the autobio of that singer with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, the late Tex Beneke.”

“A few personal items of the autobio are confirmed: she was indeed the head of the cheerleading squad at the University of Maryland.”

“He was diffident about his achievements, in contrast to the self-aggrandisement common to autobiographers.”

“Ethical biographers and autobiographers work with veracity as their aim and this striving for veracity is respected, and expected, by readers.”

“This ode to education is also reminiscent of the glorification of American education by eighteenth-century male American autobiographers like Benjamin Franklin.”

“Her ambitions are patterned on images absorbed from old movies and gleaned from her favourite reading matter, celebrity autobiographies.”

“But, there are far more poorly written biographies and autobiographies by generals than there are good ones.”

“Think about what a bummer it would be if after these autobiographies were finished we understood and knew everything about Bob Dylan.”