I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.

You must have me confused with myself

Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.

[As revealing as anything in Fowler's autobiography is the claim that his financial advisor, George Scott, encouraged Peter Ridsdale to walk away when the bidding reached double figures. It was, he said, a crazy price, but on November 29 the deal was done.] If they had been a bit tougher in the transfer market, they could have got me for half that, ... It was crazy and maybe typical of what was going on.