Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers? — Jill Ker Conway Copy Share Image
“I don,t just want success for my self ,I want my success to benefit others . Osman Gulum” — Osman Gulum Copy Share Image
There is no question in my mind: reading Gandhi's autobiography changed my life. — Tom Regan Copy Share Image
“When the person understand sense of life, is because has been consumed well.” — Trovato Solo Copy Share Image
An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions. — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an… — Mia Farrow Copy Share Image
“If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
In reviewing my life, in tracing its course, I fill my cell with the pleasure of being what for want of a… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Quincy Jones' autobiography 'Q' is very good. Because he's a master at music, he's one of our greatest composers, and its good… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
'Masquerade' is the autobiography of Wyclef Jean. A lot of people know me through my work with Carlos Santana or Destiny's Child,… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to… — Neville Cardus Copy Share Image
There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
When you realize how hard it is to know the truth about yourself, you understand that even the most exhaustive and well-meaning… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
I can't relate to the idea of suicide. I guess I'm just one of those people that is always optimistic and upbeat.… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
“It’s a bit burned,” my mother would say apologetically at every meal, presenting you with a piece of meat that looked like… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The life of each and every one of us has been written. The crucifix is my autobiography. The blood is the ink.… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“I've already spent ten years of my life apologizing for that band. As their manager, that's all I really did. Apologize. For… — Motley Crue Copy Share Image
“Autobiographical writing stands as lasting memorial for enduring the travails of an earthly life. Writing is an apt technique to score our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“But you can't fault me on my footnotes. I've worked hard on them and they look pretty impressive. And almost all the… — Jeffrey L. Staley Copy Share Image
