Autobiography Quotes · Page 8

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience.”

— Anonymous

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

— John Berger

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

— Stephen Hawking

I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.

— Diana Ross

“An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing.”

— Quentin Crisp

Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.

— Nikola Tesla

“Everyone's life is an autobiography...make yours worth reading”

— Origin but modified by Sam Thiara

If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told.

— Albert Murray

I was going to write an autobiography once. I started writing it, and then I thought, 'No, let them dig around when…

— Jeff Beck

I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.

— Garth Greenwell

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have…

— Abraham Lincoln

I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you…

— Pat Morita

My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished…

— Karrine Steffans

'Walking and Talking' is my autobiography. It's best to do it that way, rather than spend months writing a book that then…

— Kathy Burke

I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I…

— Anonymous

“What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening - all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not…

— Bob Dylan

[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

Autobiography, if there really is such a thing, is like asking a rabbit to tell us what he looks like hopping through…

— Arthur Golden

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

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

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

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

I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for…

— Nikola Tesla

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

“I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of…

— Cheryl Strayed

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

“Writing is a pitched battle with the elusive self, a contest that resultant celebratory jubilee demonstrates the writer’s innate capacity to meld…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“It's about personal development. It's about creating your own character and pushing it to the limit. It's about pushing yourself so far…

— Charlotte Eriksson

I always think about Katharine Graham - she was the publisher of The Washington Post. In her autobiography she talks about the…

— Owen Wilson

Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is…

— Robert Adams

Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what…

— Walter Benjamin

“How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?”

— Malcolm X

“After I’m dead, I want to ghostwrite my autobiography.”

— Jarod Kintz

I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.

— Abraham Lincoln

If I ever write an autobiography, 'Hilariously Unhappy' could very well be the title.

— David Hewlett

The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Mary [Tyler Moore] was absolutely brilliant... She is a fabulous actress. She can do anything.”

— Gavin MacLeod

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.

— John McEnroe

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

— Hilaire Belloc

I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

— Abraham Lincoln