Chronicle Books is a wonderful book company. I love how everything represents who I am. The Diva Rules! is not an autobiography… — Michelle Visage Copy Share Image
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Know before whom thou stands. Understand your friends for who they are, not who you wish them to be. Accept them for… — Fran Drescher Copy Share Image
Read to your children all of the time Novels and nursery rhymes Autobiographies, even the newspaper It doesn't mater; it's quality time… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy… — Jenni Rivera Copy Share Image
A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“THE main thing to remember in autobiography, I have always thought, is not to let any damned modesty creep in to spoil… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
Obviously, in marketing, the best tool is to show the autobiography in fiction. It's inevitable how that happens, but it's generic. Say… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always… — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“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
I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
According to Colonel Ely Garrison, in his autobiography and according to the United States Naval Secret Service Report on Paul Warburg, the… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. There is a clear difference in tonality.… — Paul Evdokimov Copy Share Image
Here is a quilted book about mathematical practice, each patch wonderfully prepared. Part invitation to number theory, part autobiography, part sociology of… — Peter Galison Copy Share Image
“Our best intentions are often thwarted by external forces - forces that we ourselves set in motion long ago. Decisions, especially bad… — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Literary lineage is part of your autobiography. The authors are the literary base, the image base, the character base that you bring… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Dylan [Thomas] I knew before and after he became famous. He was splendid, rapacious, demanding as a young man. To much has… — John Pudney 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
“Literature supplements the lives of people and enables us to feel connected with the world. Shared stories blunt a sense of tragic… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
A memoir is not an autobiography. It's a true story told as a novel, using techniques of novelization. The author is allowed… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
Let me put it in a positive light, with that archive [of Anne Romaine], we have gained extensive knowledge about how [Alex]… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman… — Debra Dean 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
“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity.… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
“A ball feels different off every player's racket-there are minute but concrete subtleties of force and spin. Now, hitting with her (Steffi… — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
To me, craft work is the ultimate. Maybe I got this idea from the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, who was employed as… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Travel books are all sorts - some are autobiographies, some are about falling in love. Some are about having great meals, some… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
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