“Our best intentions are often thwarted by external forces - forces that we ourselves set in motion long ago. Decisions, especially bad… — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an… — Mia Farrow Copy Share Image
If I basically view criticism as sort of an interesting form of writing about oneself, an interesting form of autobiography, then I… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Autobiography is the most fascinating thing you can do because you get to touch the human condition. And in the end, what… — Jim Dine 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
“Happy 3rd anniversary Navigating Life's Roadways! This book is a charge and blessing from above. Writing it has been on my radar… — Deborah L. Parker Copy Share Image
“Know before whom thou stands. Understand your friends for who they are, not who you wish them to be. Accept them for… — Fran Drescher Copy Share Image
Cultures, when they meet, influence one another, whether people like it or not. But Americans don't have any way of describing this… — Richard Rodriguez 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
That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“But you can't fault me on my footnotes. I've worked hard on them and they look pretty impressive. And almost all the… — Jeffrey L. Staley Copy Share Image
I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself. — Rollie Fingers Copy Share Image
“In moments of exhaustion, I think for some reason of writing an autobiography--proper work for tired artists--but every autobiographer must secretly believe… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?” — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which,… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
If you believe the past can't be changed, you haven't read a celebrity's autobiography. — Sam Ewing Copy Share Image
All of my plays are deeply autobiographical. But it's not straight autobiography. — Stephen Karam 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
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
“Autobiographical writing stands as lasting memorial for enduring the travails of an earthly life. Writing is an apt technique to score our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
