A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are .… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction,… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like… — Craig Briggs Copy Share Image
“When I got off the train back home, I saw the WHITE and COLORED signs that had been there all along, as… — Dorothy Hampton Marcus Copy Share Image
If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are… If I want to depict spring, it has to be in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“A ball feels different off every player's racket-there are minute but concrete subtleties of force and spin. Now, hitting with her (Steffi… — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
To me, craft work is the ultimate. Maybe I got this idea from the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, who was employed as… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
Travel books are all sorts - some are autobiographies, some are about falling in love. Some are about having great meals, some… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
I you're writing memoir, but it even comes up in fiction. People just assume that you're writing thinly veiled autobiography. And particularly,… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
In [Yogananda's] celebrated Autobiography of a Yogi, he offers a stunning account of the 'cosmic consciousness' reached on the upper levels of… — Robert S Ellwood Copy Share Image
I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day… — John Saxon Copy Share Image
The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best… — Harold Acton Copy Share Image
If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart)… — Nellie Melba Copy Share Image
One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond… — Theodor Haecker Copy Share Image
It's very important to me I get my autobiography out before I die and someone else writes it and screws up my… — Rob Van Dam Copy Share Image
I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me… — Jeffrey Bernard Copy Share Image
When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman. — Alessandra Stanley Copy Share Image
Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about… — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
“The Grim Reaper isn't grim at all; he's a life-saver. He isn't grim because he isn't anything. . . . he is… — Jack Kerouac Atop an Underwood Early Stories and Other Writings Copy Share Image
“All I'd ever done was sing songs that were dead straight and expressed powerful new realities. I had very little in common… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I have Peter O'Toole's autograph on a first-edition copy of his autobiography that I acquired under false pretenses. — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
“When things go really wrong just imagine how interesting it will be as a chapter in your autobiography.” — Gary Edward Gedall Copy Share Image
On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an… — Paul Murray Kendall Copy Share Image
I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“An autobiography is inherently incomplete unless the last page is written on the eve of the author's demise.” — Dan Makaon Copy Share Image
There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Aren’t autobiographies born in a question we ask ourselves: how did I get to this point? Don’t we look back over the… — Frederick Weisel Copy Share Image
“Attempting to express a person’s objective reality and subjective state of mind with the written word is an endless task because writing… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw… — Boy George Copy Share Image
I started writing about New Mexico in an autobiography class I was taking for school, and realized that it was very inspiring… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
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