“I knew it was coming. I knew they didn't have the nerve. Three days in and they've got faces like vexed tomatoes,… — Mark E. Smith Copy Share Image
Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“It’s a bit burned,” my mother would say apologetically at every meal, presenting you with a piece of meat that looked like… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
I you're writing memoir, but it even comes up in fiction. People just assume that you're writing thinly veiled autobiography. And particularly,… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
The F.B.I. was very happy with the article they produced, which was entitled, "The Black Merchants of Hate," that came out in… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think… — Bob Kane Copy Share Image
This may be a little bit of a provocative thing to say, but the memoirist doesn't owe the reader anything other than… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too,… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“In order to survive her tumultuous childhood, Mary created another Fat Mary, a companion and consoler, who took away her hurts, fears,… — Maria Nhambu Copy Share Image
Biography, too, is liable to the same objection; it should be autobiography. Let us not, as the Germans advise, endeavor to go… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions,… — Anonymous 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
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
“Thanksgiving is no time for amateur hour in the kitchen, but we were subjected to this Gong Show on a yearly basis.… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
I am not a very sentimental man; and the best sentiment I can think of is, that if you collect the signatures… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the… — Fulton Oursler Copy Share Image
If you publish Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography, no one will read it but if it's Madhuri Dixit's or Madhubala's autobiography people will come… — Asrani Copy Share Image
A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
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