Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing.” — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“Everyone's life is an autobiography...make yours worth reading” — Origin but modified by Sam Thiara Copy Share Image
“How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?” — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told. — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
I've read 'Autobiography of a Yogi' at different ages and interpret something new each time. — Shriya Saran Copy Share Image
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. — John Berger Copy Share Image
I keep stacks of Autobiography of a Yogi around the house, and I give it out constantly to people. When people need… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its… — Dick Francis Copy Share Image
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that. — Deborah Kerr Copy Share Image
“Many great people had been considered to be boring, like Nigel Mansell, but anyone who had read the racing driver’s autobiography, "Clutch… — Mark Jackman Copy Share Image
A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which,… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character… — Ving Rhames Copy Share Image
When my relations with the Communist Party gave me the necessary perspective I decided to write my autobiography. I wanted to show… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Yes, I have two books that are about me: one of them I wrote, and the other one was written about me.… — Eve Bunting Copy Share Image
The F.B.I. was very happy with the article they produced, which was entitled, "The Black Merchants of Hate," that came out in… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
When I was first approached about doing an autobiography, I said, 'absolutely not.' But when I sat down, memories came pouring out.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“But you can't fault me on my footnotes. I've worked hard on them and they look pretty impressive. And almost all the… — Jeffrey L. Staley Copy Share Image
“The quality of any author’s effort at personal writing and thematic commentary hinges upon the author’s intrinsic limitations, personal vantage point, and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I understand and I know from experience that: 'The kingdom of God is within you.' Jesus has no need of books or… — St. Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Cultures, when they meet, influence one another, whether people like it or not. But Americans don't have any way of describing this… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“This person is (pick one): 1. on a perilous journey from which we can learn much when he or she returns; 2.… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“On Sunday evenings, there was a comparatively vast array of radio shows from which to choose. Frequently I would lie in my… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
For better or worse, I seem to gravitate toward writing about something or someone else, then have my own self shove its… — Lucas Mann Copy Share Image
A mans face is his autobiography. A women's face is her work of fiction. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ric Flair was so big I heard about him. I've read his autobiography and all that. He's huge. — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
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