Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price. — Nikola Tesla 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
I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now… — Cilla Black Copy Share Image
This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance. — Abraham Joshua Heschel 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
“Thos who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.” — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead. — Joseph Barbera Copy Share Image
For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?' — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
“Dylan [Thomas] I knew before and after he became famous. He was splendid, rapacious, demanding as a young man. To much has… — John Pudney Copy Share Image
Yes, I have two books that are about me: one of them I wrote, and the other one was written about me.… — Eve Bunting Copy Share Image
The problem with an autobiography is that all these extra factors make it difficult. You don't want to hurt people's feelings. You… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself. — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers? — Jill Ker Conway 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
I'm a Democrat voting for Bush, even though on economic issues, from taxes to government regulation, I'm not happy with the Republican… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are .… — Mark Twain 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
According to Colonel Ely Garrison, in his autobiography and according to the United States Naval Secret Service Report on Paul Warburg, the… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
“Writing is an exhausting and demoralizing task that destroys human conceits. Writing an elongated series of personal essay opens a person’s mind… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
