Autobiography Quotes · Page 8

I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.

— Diana Ross

“Everyone's life is an autobiography...make yours worth reading”

— Origin but modified by Sam Thiara

“An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing.”

— Quentin Crisp

Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.

— Nikola Tesla

If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told.

— Albert Murray

“How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?”

— Malcolm X

I've read 'Autobiography of a Yogi' at different ages and interpret something new each time.

— Shriya Saran

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

— Anonymous

I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you…

— Pat Morita

“No one ever asked me if I wanted to play tennis, let alone make it my life. My father decided long before…

— Andre Agassi

To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx.

— Groucho Marx

I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about…

— Kajol

I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold…

— Dan Rather

I have no plans to write an autobiography, I will leave that to others. I'm sure they will turn me into a…

— Cary Grant

This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think…

— Bob Kane

'Walking and Talking' is my autobiography. It's best to do it that way, rather than spend months writing a book that then…

— Kathy Burke

I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're…

— Laura Z. Hobson

“I really think this kind of consensual cannibalism is such a perfect analogue for the reciprocal relationship between writer and reader, and…

— Mark Leyner

In a novel there's not much autobiography. There are characters in transit. Naturally, I can project something of my experiences onto the…

— Dacia Maraini

Chronicle Books is a wonderful book company. I love how everything represents who I am. The Diva Rules! is not an autobiography…

— Michelle Visage

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

— Oscar Wilde

The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can…

— Groucho Marx

For a book publisher, there is hardly a more dangerous category than that of celebrity autobiography. Forget who it's by, most books…

— Michael Korda

“Know before whom thou stands. Understand your friends for who they are, not who you wish them to be. Accept them for…

— Fran Drescher

Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what…

— Walter Benjamin

Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is…

— Robert Adams

“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

I can't relate to the idea of suicide. I guess I'm just one of those people that is always optimistic and upbeat.…

— Dane Cook

“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

“I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of…

— Cheryl Strayed

When you realize how hard it is to know the truth about yourself, you understand that even the most exhaustive and well-meaning…

— Phyllis Rose

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

— John Berger

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

— Hilaire Belloc

I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

— Abraham Lincoln

There's a lot of bullshit in Peter Fonda's autobiography. A great deal of it is complete fabrication.

— Margot Kidder

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

— Fay Weldon

“Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.”

— Anonymous

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

— Abraham Lincoln

“After I’m dead, I want to ghostwrite my autobiography.”

— Jarod Kintz

If I ever write an autobiography, 'Hilariously Unhappy' could very well be the title.

— David Hewlett