Autobiography Quotes · Page 9

My second book will be the autobiography of Destiny's Child.

— Mathew Knowles

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.

— John McEnroe

“Mary [Tyler Moore] was absolutely brilliant... She is a fabulous actress. She can do anything.”

— Gavin MacLeod

The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

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

— David Hewlett

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

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

— Margot Kidder

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own…

— Carlos Fuentes

“My father says he doesn't like hawks because they swoop down on mice and other defenseless desert creatures. He can't stand the…

— Andre Agassi

A novel, especially a first novel, is... really an emotional autobiography. All these emotions I'm embarrassed at having had, I've written about.

— Min Jin Lee

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own.…

— William Trevor

I don’t feel pressure … I don’t give a toss about it. I spent the afternoon of Sunday, 9 July, 2006 in…

— Andrea Pirlo

I didn't want to sugarcoat anything. I wanted to make an honest story. Of course, to write a real autobiography, you've got…

— Superstar Billy Graham

“I didn't find my story; it found me, as autobiography always does: finds you out in your deepest most private places.”

— Kelly Cherry

“Let your autobiography contain these words; "I was able to think positively, love affectionately and work efficiently". Thinking, loving and working are…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The difference between America and England is that the English think 100 miles is a long distance and the Americans think 100…

— Marilyn vos Savant

You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self…

— Kate Millett

Johnny Ramone's autobiography is a no holds barred, straight-forward book written in a no-nonsense style that is Johnny personified. His story is…

— Tommy Ramone

When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of…

— Abraham Lincoln

Despite the natural belittling of one's self, the doubts, the insecurities, we have to wake up to the realisation that we all…

— Yossi Ghinsberg

Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a…

— Rupert Murdoch

Literary lineage is part of your autobiography. The authors are the literary base, the image base, the character base that you bring…

— David Biespiel

“Our best intentions are often thwarted by external forces - forces that we ourselves set in motion long ago. Decisions, especially bad…

— Andre Agassi

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Hilaire Belloc

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

— John Berger

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

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

— Origin but modified by Sam Thiara

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

— Nikola Tesla

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

— Quentin Crisp

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

— Malcolm X

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

— Albert Murray

I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.

— Diana Ross

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

— Stephen Hawking

“If my clone writes my biography, is it really an autobiography?”

— Jarod Kintz

If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.

— H. G. Wells