I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about… — Kajol Copy Share Image
“No one ever asked me if I wanted to play tennis, let alone make it my life. My father decided long before… — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding.” — Meghan Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography. — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I was going to write an autobiography once. I started writing it, and then I thought, 'No, let them dig around when… — Jeff Beck 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time. — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
“Memoirs are often about difficult things in a person's life. In my situation, my story starts with about the stupidest, most immoral… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.' — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life,… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
I learned a lot of things about literature talking to people at the publishing company. Did you know that about 90 percent… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
I was kind of relieved with the way the book [The Proud Highway] came out. It's beyond an autobiography or a biography.… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I don't think anyone could write a completely honest autobiography. I am sure no one could bear to read it: My Past… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“These then are some of my first memories. But of course as an account of my life they are misleading, because the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“..And songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography. — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work. — Jeffrey Brown Copy Share Image
I don't think Trump reads. If he does, my guess is he's reading autobiographies of ... I wonder if he's read Mein Kampf. — Eric Walters Copy Share Image
“... A man's wife can hold him devilish uneasy, if she begins to scold and fret, and perplex him, at a time… — David Crockett Copy Share Image
Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography. — James Frey Copy Share Image
Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Where's the mileage in an autobiography? Anyone who writes one inevitably casts themselves as a hero, and I'm not about to do… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I keep stacks of Autobiography of a Yogi around the house, and I give it out constantly to people. When people need… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
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