Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
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A good autobiography is like a document: a mirror of the age on which people can 'depend.' In a novel, by contrast, it's not the facts that matter, but precisely what you add to the facts.
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.
Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.
An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.
Memoirs are - memory is - rarely 100 percent accurate. Any autobiography is a construct, ballpark, even unnatural. Private diaries, too, can be unreliable - a detail that matters only if the diary is read.
Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.
I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.