Biographies Quote by Douglas Brinkley

Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me.…

— W. P. Kinsella

I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept…

— Jennine Capó Crucet

I could write several books about my life.

— Bob Christo

I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably…

— D. B. Weiss

I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.

— Della Reese

I don't have a clear biography of my own that I could recount in an interesting way. I'm made up of the characters that…

— Olga Tokarczuk

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book…

— Joan Collins

When I first decided I wanted to be a writer, when I was 10, 11 years old, the books that I loved obviously and…

— Michael Chabon

When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so…

— Jeff Kinney

I started writing my own things when I was about 8.

— Charli XCX

There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.

— Arthur Wing Pinero

I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I wanted to…

— Harvey Pekar