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
I got Robbie's mobile number and rang him. It went to his voicemail: 'Hi, it's Robbie - whazzup!' Like the Budweiser ad.… — Roy Keane Copy Share Image
I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell… — Celia Johnson Copy Share Image
I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“An autobiography is inherently incomplete unless the last page is written on the eve of the author's demise.” — Dan Makaon Copy Share Image
“When things go really wrong just imagine how interesting it will be as a chapter in your autobiography.” — Gary Edward Gedall 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
It would just be a pamphlet. Three pages. The first page would be Drugs I Have Taken and then a list. The… — Ryan Jarman Copy Share Image
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“I am, as it were, the created creating—a paradox, for all its rhetorical trappings, at the beating heart of our shared human… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
I was a fan of the Marx Brothers. One of them had this character where he pretended not to be able to… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
Eclectic is a word that appears almost as much as the word smarmy in rock journalism and I've come to the fact,… — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share Image
“As mankind 'matures,' as it becomes more possible to be frank in the scrutiny of the self and others and in the… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“I can claim copyright only in myself, and occasionally in those who are either dead or have written about the same events,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an… — Paul Murray Kendall Copy Share Image
Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you? — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw… — Boy George Copy Share Image
“Attempting to express a person’s objective reality and subjective state of mind with the written word is an endless task because writing… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I started writing about New Mexico in an autobiography class I was taking for school, and realized that it was very inspiring… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Aren’t autobiographies born in a question we ask ourselves: how did I get to this point? Don’t we look back over the… — Frederick Weisel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I didn't find my story; it found me, as autobiography always does: finds you out in your deepest most private places.” — Kelly Cherry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I really was never any more than what I was -a folk musician who gazed into the gray mist with tear-blinded eyes… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Siamese twins are interesting because they are the only people who can write a biography and an autobiography at the same time. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I was doing a show in L.A. called 'Celebrity Autobiography,' where celebrities read excerpts from other celebrities' books and hang themselves with… — Scott Adsit 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
I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now… — Cilla Black Copy Share Image
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