Autobiography Quotes · Page 4

I don’t feel pressure … I don’t give a toss about it. I spent the afternoon of Sunday, 9 July, 2006 in…

— Andrea Pirlo

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.

— James Boswell

“It's about personal development. It's about creating your own character and pushing it to the limit. It's about pushing yourself so far…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if…

— Shannon L. Alder

It would just be a pamphlet. Three pages. The first page would be Drugs I Have Taken and then a list. The…

— Ryan Jarman

“Tell me about yourself, Miss Russell." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat…

— Laurie R. King

When you write an autobiography, it has to be authentic.

— Zeenat Aman

Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run…

— Oscar Wilde

All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.

— Anonymous

What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.

— Miles Franklin

It is a most curious experience for a man of seventy-two to be confronted with the greenhorn enthusiasms of his youth. Young…

— John Dos Passos

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience.”

— Anonymous

All autobiography is fiction.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

In fact Sarah Palin has created more jobs than Obama has. She created eleven jobs fact-checking at the AP just for the…

— Ann Coulter

When I write my autobiography after 20-25 years, I want 2014 to be the weakest year of my life.

— Sajid Nadiadwala

Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected…

— Paul Auster

People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along? Can we stop making it,…

— James Boswell

Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to…

— Neville Cardus

The human face is the subtle yet visual autobiography of each person,

— John O'Donohue

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when…

— Oscar Wilde

I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.

— Abraham Lincoln

“Too embarrassed even to try as long as everyone was looking at me, I made what was probably a fairly unique request.…

— Tracey Thorn

“Do you consider yourself a blessing or just another person?”

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

I would be happy presenting our albums as part of a joint autobiography.

— Ron Mael

I wasn't allowed to use people's real names, such as my siblings and my children's father, but there's nothing fabricated or untrue…

— Kola Boof