“The sea sounded like a thousand secrets, all whispered at the same time.” — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible. — John Grigg Copy Share Image
All of my plays are deeply autobiographical. But it's not straight autobiography. — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry. — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Copy Share Image
My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.” — Elizabeth J. Andrew Copy Share Image
In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Thanksgiving is no time for amateur hour in the kitchen, but we were subjected to this Gong Show on a yearly basis.… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval. — David Antin Copy Share Image
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I was 12. Our ,teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Everywhere in science the talk is of winners, patents, pressures, money, no money, the rat race, the lot; things that are so… — June Goodfield Copy Share Image
Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
When you first start off, I know singers who have only been in the business just a short amount of time, and… — Tom Jones Copy Share Image
Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I recall the words of Charles Darwin in his Autobiography. ‘I rejoice that I have avoided controversies, and this I owe to… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
Look, I really do not care about you. What I care about is the worlds that you bear witness to. You are… — Michael Lesy Copy Share Image
A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“The corpses were hauled away on sledges or on carts, depending on the time of the year. Sometimes, for convenience, they used… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Expensive illogicalities and inefficiencies do not worry the monsters of American bureaucracy, and the taxpayers are enthusiastic and eager to spend fortunes… — Howard Marks Copy Share Image
Because I didn't go to film school, I had a collection of books that were inspiring or taught me how to make… — Alex Stapleton Copy Share Image
“Archie Henderson has won no awards, written no books and never played any representative sport. He was an under-11 tournament-winning tennis player… — Archie Henderson Copy Share Image
“I prayed that our growth would be as strong and determined as the seeds of coconut palms, boldly reaching skyward toward the… — Maria Nhambu Copy Share Image
“The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human… — Harry Kroto Copy Share Image
Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you — Mae West Copy Share Image
There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
