Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people - the autobiographists and the biographists. — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“The first half of my life was dedicated to corporate America. The second half is dedicated to me.” — Spring Etta Edwards Copy Share Image
If I ever wrote an autobiography - and I won't - it would be called 'Don't Google Me.' — Craig Bellamy Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.' — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“Memoirs are often about difficult things in a person's life. In my situation, my story starts with about the stupidest, most immoral… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to… — William Golding 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
I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work. — Jeffrey Brown Copy Share Image
Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography. — James Frey Copy Share Image
“... A man's wife can hold him devilish uneasy, if she begins to scold and fret, and perplex him, at a time… — David Crockett Copy Share Image
You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
“The irony that all writers confront and must overcome is that the writer is afraid to commence, frightened to finish what is… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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
Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela announced Tuesday he will begin writing his autobiography. He spent 25 years in prison before being… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
I believe artists should be able to step into other people's situations, contexts and cultures and work from there. If artists don't… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
“Besides, I'm not going to tell you my whole autobiography or anything. I'll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“It was rather peculiar behaviour for a totem animal. Totem animals are supposed to be the spirits of actual dead animals or… — Michelle Frost Copy Share Image
The problem with an autobiography is that all these extra factors make it difficult. You don't want to hurt people's feelings. You… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
After a short period spent in Brussels as a guest of a neurological institute, I returned to Turin on the verge of… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“The corpses were hauled away on sledges or on carts, depending on the time of the year. Sometimes, for convenience, they used… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Expensive illogicalities and inefficiencies do not worry the monsters of American bureaucracy, and the taxpayers are enthusiastic and eager to spend fortunes… — Howard Marks Copy Share Image
No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
One of my heroes is Mr. Sidney Poitier. In his autobiography, "The Measure of a Man," he talks about the difference between… — Michael Ealy Copy Share Image
“I know there's no way I can convince you this is not one of their tricks, but I don't care, I am… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Writing a personal essay or memoir addresses how a person thinks and behaves in the context of society’s prevailing moral and ethical… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
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