The features of character are carved out of adversity.

“Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils.”

— Rick Barnett

To be able to let you know who someone is in just a couple of words, I'd have to pick the most pronounced features…

— Lisa Kudrow

“Let us make sure that future generation writes our biography.”

— Amit Kalantri

So many people had been asking me to write an autobiography, or threatening to write my biography without any input from me, that I…

— Michael Palin

“The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human inventions, as…

— Harry Kroto

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

— Thomas Szasz

I wish my BOOK OF LIFE was written in pencil,there are few pages I would like to erase,

— Anonymous

“I could not feel, smell, see, hear, or taste the world around me. If I had allowed myself to experience these things in all…

— Yeonmi Park

“Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.”

— Jeffrey Rasley

“I’m chasing after that Holy Shit effect. If this sounds arrogant, that’s because it is. If you don’t believe in your own greatness, no…

— Kevin Hart

It is in the elements that we found ourselves; even though the elements are not the, same Now.

— Jerril Thomas Abraham

“Oh dear heart, save yourself. will you not sing yourself to sleep humming wishes you thought you wouldn't make. will you not step into…

— Hannah Cao

“I encourage anyone who has gone through hardships to look back through their life’s chapters and see what can be turned into a book.…

— Jolina Petersheim

“Reading wasn't an attempt to educate myself. It was my chief escape from a world that, although gorgeous in landscape and rich with mountain…

— Chris Offutt

“The trouble with life (the novelist will feel) is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably…

— Martin Amis