“My limitless ability to weave time and space does not make me a god - just a da-n good writer.” — Edmund Alexander Sims Copy Share Image
I can't ever think of writing a book or an autobiography. I'm a little private person. — Randhir Kapoor Copy Share Image
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit. — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
To write an autobiography, you've got to expose other people. I hope to get out of this world as gracefully as possible,… — Cary Grant Copy Share Image
Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography. — James Frey Copy Share Image
My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere. — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I think that today's books, in which every quote, every conversation, is taken from a memoir, an autobiography, an interview, or what-have-you,… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
Sometimes, with autobiographies, it turns into a bit of score-settling. And looking back, I don't feel the way I did then, and… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without… — Boris Becker Copy Share Image
Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“In order to survive her tumultuous childhood, Mary created another Fat Mary, a companion and consoler, who took away her hurts, fears,… — Maria Nhambu Copy Share Image
Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along? Can we stop making it,… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one’s personal history and that of one’s friends, interwoven with one’s tastes, preferences… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Tell me about yourself, Miss Russell." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
“...if it be true that every novel contains an element of autobiography—and this can hardly be denied, since the creator can only… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Writing is an exhausting and demoralizing task that destroys human conceits. Writing an elongated series of personal essay opens a person’s mind… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The womb of the world births us. My filth comes from the same earthwork that gives rise to all stories. My interior… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Dialogue in the works of autobiography is quite naturally viewed with some suspicion. How on earth can the writer remember verbatim conversations… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was working within a figurative representational framework, and there was a sense of reading the painting as a transparency, or truth,… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image
“The dominant myth of the day seemed to be that anybody could do anything, even go to the moon. You could do… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
When I find that I am more conscious, it's because I'm in tune with a higher reality. When I'm less conscious, it's… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
“Reading his autobiography many years later, I was astonished to find that Edward since boyhood had—not unlike Isaiah Berlin—often felt himself ungainly… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers? — Jill Ker Conway Copy Share Image
“I don,t just want success for my self ,I want my success to benefit others . Osman Gulum” — Osman Gulum Copy Share Image
There is no question in my mind: reading Gandhi's autobiography changed my life. — Tom Regan Copy Share Image
I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography. — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image