If you believe the past can't be changed, you haven't read a celebrity's autobiography. — Sam Ewing Copy Share Image
“Do you consider yourself a blessing or just another person?” — Jonathan Anthony Burkett Copy Share Image
“The memoirs of call girls are much in demand these days - a millennial craze.” — Dimitra Ekmektsis Copy Share Image
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I thought it would be more interesting to make a musical autobiography than an actual autobiography. — Ian Brown Copy Share Image
A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it. — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots. — Nikola Tesla 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
The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“When I got off the train back home, I saw the WHITE and COLORED signs that had been there all along, as… — Dorothy Hampton Marcus Copy Share Image
I have Peter O'Toole's autograph on a first-edition copy of his autobiography that I acquired under false pretenses. — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
“All I'd ever done was sing songs that were dead straight and expressed powerful new realities. I had very little in common… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events -… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
“ In winter, the cows stock up on nutrients, so their milk is sweet, with a creamy richness. Milk is originally part… — Asako Yuzuki 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
“Ever met a sympathetic doctor? No ways. They’re always impatient, glancing at the watch, calculating the price of your sickness against the… — Ian Martin Copy Share Image
My life has been sadly lacking in snails. I can't clearly remember any first-hand encounters. The best thing I can come up… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
I have to say in premise 'Winter Journal' is really not a memoir. And I don't even think of it as an… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Andy Anderson has written an autobiography in pictures, a life on the water. Salt is an eloquent modern paean to the strength… — Guy De la Valdene Copy Share Image
I found the best ideas usually came, not when one was actively striving for them, but when one was in a more… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
“[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty] One small autobiographical piece by Rorty bears the title 'Wild Orchids and Trotsky.'… — Jürgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Writers’ never-ending quest involves investigating genuineness while carving out narrative nonfiction. They must strive to reach great truths by recounting untold lies… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Is it not possible that the rage for confession, autobiography, especially for memories of earliest childhood, is explained by our persistent yet… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“If I was building any new kind of life to live, it really didn't seem that way. It's not as if I… — Bob Dylan 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
“The quality of any author’s effort at personal writing and thematic commentary hinges upon the author’s intrinsic limitations, personal vantage point, and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography. — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
“But I had already fallen. Fallen into this deep, dark hole. I was trapped. Trapped in this nightmare.” — Sarah Todd Hammer Copy Share Image
I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography. — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image