Book Quote by Salman Rushdie

My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.

— Maureen Forrester

This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come to life…

— Alberto Manguel

The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else’s life. And when we do that, we learn…

— Katherine Paterson

It's weird when people come up to me and know stuff about my life. That sort of creeps me out.

— Colleen Haskell

I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.

— David Cassidy

I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I just use…

— Bill Bryson

Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always…

— Clara Barton

I've never been able to comprehend why people are interested in my personal life, cause I'm not like that.

— Michael Clarke

I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.

— Don DeLillo

Its weird when people come up to me and know stuff about my life. That sort of creeps me out.

— Colleen Haskell

I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real…

— Claire Tomalin

I know that it can be really difficult to read about your own life... in someone else's words.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs