Autobiography is studied and exercise for the dept of englishBy Prof Dr Sohail ansari

 “Every self will taste death. You will be paid your wages in full on the Day of Rising. Anyone who is distanced from the Fire and admitted to the Garden, has triumphed. The life of this world is only the enjoyment of delusion,” (3:185) The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you. John Lennon

·          ‘In an autobiography, there may be several themes. They are general ideas the author has about the meaning of his or her life’. Autobiography is, however, not about how the life was, but how the life should be known. Autobiography often runs counter to the real life; and readers know an individual through autobiography as acetic not hedonist and altruist not selfish.

Students are to explain quotes below

·          I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.― Ann Brashares

“...history is filled with fictional people. We have all been fooled into believing in people who are entirely imaginary - made-up prisoners in a hypothetical panopticon. But the point isn't whether or not you believe in imaginary people; it's whether or not you want to.” 
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

“A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader.” 
― W.J. Raymond

“One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange, impossible place where the beaux of Fielding may still make love to the belles of Richardson, where Scott’s heroes still may strut, Dickens’s delightful Cockneys still raise a laugh, and Thackeray’s worldlings continue to carry on their reprehensible careers. Perhaps in some humble corner of such a Valhalla, Sherlock and his Watson may for a time find a place, while some more astute sleuth with some even less astute comrade may fill the stage which they have vacated.” 
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“Real people are made out of a whole lot of things—flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words.” 
― Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines