What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you? — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I got Robbie's mobile number and rang him. It went to his voicemail: 'Hi, it's Robbie - whazzup!' Like the Budweiser ad.… — Roy Keane Copy Share Image
It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too,… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
“It's so embarrassing to think that someone is actually interested in what you're thinking. And in that regard, it's almost unbelievable that… — Oddný Eir Copy Share Image
'Panto!' is basically my life. It's not a comedy drama; it's a documentary. I was going to write an autobiography, but I… — John Bishop Copy Share Image
Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer. — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together… — Christopher Buckley Copy Share Image
[Cindy Sherman's] photographs reverse the terms of art and autobiography. They use art not to reveal the artist's true self but to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
Autobiography, if there really is such a thing, is like asking a rabbit to tell us what he looks like hopping through… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
For a book publisher, there is hardly a more dangerous category than that of celebrity autobiography. Forget who it's by, most books… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Chronicle Books is a wonderful book company. I love how everything represents who I am. The Diva Rules! is not an autobiography… — Michelle Visage Copy Share Image
The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell… — Celia Johnson Copy Share Image
I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
In a novel there's not much autobiography. There are characters in transit. Naturally, I can project something of my experiences onto the… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
“I really think this kind of consensual cannibalism is such a perfect analogue for the reciprocal relationship between writer and reader, and… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're… — Laura Z. Hobson Copy Share Image
A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
Read to your children all of the time Novels and nursery rhymes Autobiographies, even the newspaper It doesn't mater; it's quality time… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy… — Jenni Rivera Copy Share Image
I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“THE main thing to remember in autobiography, I have always thought, is not to let any damned modesty creep in to spoil… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
Obviously, in marketing, the best tool is to show the autobiography in fiction. It's inevitable how that happens, but it's generic. Say… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
“Know before whom thou stands. Understand your friends for who they are, not who you wish them to be. Accept them for… — Fran Drescher Copy Share Image
Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always… — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
“I knew it was coming. I knew they didn't have the nerve. Three days in and they've got faces like vexed tomatoes,… — Mark E. Smith Copy Share Image
“I am, as it were, the created creating—a paradox, for all its rhetorical trappings, at the beating heart of our shared human… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
It would just be a pamphlet. Three pages. The first page would be Drugs I Have Taken and then a list. The… — Ryan Jarman Copy Share Image
The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
(Pete) Rose's coming clean is the most soiled conversion of convenience since ... well, Aug. 17, 1998, when DNA evidence caused Bill… — George Will Copy Share Image
“Autobiographical writing acts as a timeless testament to each person’s epic record of adventure, heartache, road to perdition, and achievement of a… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
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