I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography. — Richard Simmons 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
Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together… — Christopher Buckley Copy Share Image
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Where's the mileage in an autobiography? Anyone who writes one inevitably casts themselves as a hero, and I'm not about to do… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
“The Grim Reaper isn't grim at all; he's a life-saver. He isn't grim because he isn't anything. . . . he is… — Jack Kerouac Atop an Underwood Early Stories and Other Writings Copy Share Image
The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through several editions in foreign countries. I… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
[Cindy Sherman's] photographs reverse the terms of art and autobiography. They use art not to reveal the artist's true self but to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
“Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding.” — Meghan Lamb Copy Share Image
Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them.… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription… — Abraham Lincoln 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
If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
(Pete) Rose's coming clean is the most soiled conversion of convenience since ... well, Aug. 17, 1998, when DNA evidence caused Bill… — George Will Copy Share Image
The life of each and every one of us has been written. The crucifix is my autobiography. The blood is the ink.… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“But as much as I'll own my flaws, ultimately, I know that I'm a good person. I can see now that you… — Britney Spears Copy Share Image
“Listen: I don't have anything against autobiographies, so long as the writer has a penis that's twelve inches long when erect. So… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Quincy Jones' autobiography 'Q' is very good. Because he's a master at music, he's one of our greatest composers, and its good… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image