[The public has] the habit now of invalidating opinions emanating from me by reference to my age and infirmities. — James Madison Copy Share Image
A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“better to keep a good conscience with an empty purse, than to get a bad opinion of myself, with a full one.” — David Crockett Copy Share Image
I think every artist's next work will reflect a new chapter in their autobiography. Each album tells a story about where they… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
an autobiography held out the promise of hearing truths that only friends confess to one another but are knowledge you need to… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
I will read biographies or autobiographies while I'm writing, but mostly I put books in a to-read queue, like Rachel Cusk's new… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“If you don't invite God as a summer guest, he will not come in the winter of your life" said Lahiri Mahasaya” — Sri Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Autobiography, if there really is such a thing, is like asking a rabbit to tell us what he looks like hopping through… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
One of the more fatuous remarks I've heard in recent days is that 'My Life,' Clinton's autobiography, is too long and, at… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
“Knowing that only minutes earlier I had walked to the car, my mom helped me out and stood me up in the… — Sarah Todd Hammer Copy Share Image
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up… — Nicholas Delbanco Copy Share Image
The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
To write an autobiography, you've got to expose other people. I hope to get out of this world as gracefully as possible,… — Cary Grant Copy Share Image
UCLA acknowledged this shift by bringing in Alex Haley (the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X) and Eldridge Cleaver (Soul on… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography. — James Frey Copy Share Image
My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere. — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I always call 'Billy Elliot' a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
“My own [story] is the simplest ... it hardly amounts to more than a convincing proof of my existence - and yet… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful… — Fawn M. Brodie Copy Share Image
A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity--a good strong figure. But I think itis… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its… — Dick Francis Copy Share Image
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that. — Deborah Kerr Copy Share Image
“Many great people had been considered to be boring, like Nigel Mansell, but anyone who had read the racing driver’s autobiography, "Clutch… — Mark Jackman Copy Share Image
The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography. — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
When I was writing my autobiography, these songs came up from time to time which were important to me, and I realized… — Greg Lake Copy Share Image
My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
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