I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story. — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
I believe that if we could see the chapters that are missing from the book [The Autobiography of Malcolm X], we would… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
“I think I was about twenty-five when I first said - more or less to myself - that I was quite a… — John Pudney Copy Share Image
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Travel books are all sorts - some are autobiographies, some are about falling in love. Some are about having great meals, some… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I started writing about New Mexico in an autobiography class I was taking for school, and realized that it was very inspiring… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela announced Tuesday he will begin writing his autobiography. He spent 25 years in prison before being… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
Obviously, in marketing, the best tool is to show the autobiography in fiction. It's inevitable how that happens, but it's generic. Say… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best… — Harold Acton Copy Share Image
“A person’s life is a bounded thing that must end. We will leave this earth with unfinished business. Regardless of the outcome… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“Every American autobiography, someone once said, is about one thing—escape. Look into the frightened heart of an American life, and you’ll find… — Frederick Weisel Copy Share Image
“The corpses were hauled away on sledges or on carts, depending on the time of the year. Sometimes, for convenience, they used… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn 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
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
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
“I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of… — Cheryl Strayed 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
Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I wish my BOOK OF LIFE was written in pencil,there are few pages I would like to erase, — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I prayed that our growth would be as strong and determined as the seeds of coconut palms, boldly reaching skyward toward the… — Maria Nhambu Copy Share Image
'Masquerade' is the autobiography of Wyclef Jean. A lot of people know me through my work with Carlos Santana or Destiny's Child,… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
“It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing leaf -anything that might lead… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
