Autobiography Quotes

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. John Berger
Alone Sense Begins Autobiography Being Form Being Alone Orphan
The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography, 'Why Not the Best?,' published in 1975. Jonathan Raban
Dreams Best Book Father President Jimmy Obama Carter Only Bears Campaign Modern Short Autobiography Serious Comparison Why Published Why Not
When I was first approached about doing an autobiography, I said, 'absolutely not.' But when I sat down, memories came pouring out. It wrote very quickly - I think there was an emotional impulse, because once I started in, the story itself carried me along. It was a very intense writing period and took a year and change to finish. Julia Cameron
Me Memories Change Writing First Year Down Think Took Once Carried Out About Finish Absolutely Emotional Absolutely Not Pouring Along Period Wrote Because Said Doing Came Itself Very Quickly Intense Impulse Autobiography Story Sat Started
I caught a cold and didn't have time to work on my autobiography. Julie Doucet
Work Time Cold Caught Autobiography
I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves! Kajol
People About Direct Only Write Talk Autobiography Want Themselves Certainly Film Ever
I have my Grade 1 autobiography that says I'm going to the 2012 Olympic Games, and it has a picture of me on the podium. So, I've known my whole life. It's not something I just thought of. I've known I would be an Olympic athlete; didn't know what sport, but I drew myself in a judo gi. Kelita Zupancic
Life Myself Me Thought Picture Says Would Would-Be Athlete Drew Podium Something Know Sport Known Grade Going Just Autobiography Games Whole Olympic Olympic Games
In his new autobiography, 'Capital Gaines,' Chip talks about the farm work - and he says he does, in fact, do it himself. Kelly Evans
Work Farm Says About Fact He New Himself Talks Does His Autobiography In Fact Chip Capital
Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical. Lisel Mueller
You Everything Totally Objective Something Fact Writes Makes Subject Autobiographical Autobiography Even
A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does not the whole world, seen and unseen, go to the making up of every human being? Lucy Larcom
Life Human Being World Seen Picture Every Universe Complete Indeed Photographed Would Outer Unseen Does Making Making Up Go Up Human Autobiography Being Little Whole Consciousness Inner
I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it. Marjane Satrapi
Life Truth You Truth Is Word Out Rather Never Term Like Make Course Becomes Autobiography Fictional Story Script Far Created Your Second
A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque narrative that captivated many who hadn't the slightest inkling of what architects actually did. Martin Filler
Art Perception Building Slightest Frank Architects Wright Point Narrative Came Did Autobiography Public Turning Turning Point Who Many Captivated Publication Actually
My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process. Mia Farrow
Me Writing Father Writer Always Autobiography Loved Process Interesting Should Found
For a book publisher, there is hardly a more dangerous category than that of celebrity autobiography. Forget who it's by, most books of this kind not only fail but fail big, since they are invariably expensive. Michael Korda
Book Dangerous Big Books Kind Invariably More Only Fail Since Category Most Celebrity Than Forget Autobiography Expensive Who Publisher Hardly
So many people had been asking me to write an autobiography, or threatening to write my biography without any input from me, that I thought I'd better tell my story before other people told it for me. Michael Palin
Me People Better Thought Before Other Input Tell Threatening Write Had Without Been Any So Many People Autobiography Story Asking Many Biography
In 1999, I had my back against the wall, and WWE had a ghostwriter working on an autobiography for me. He was halfway through, and it was awful, just boring. I took over as a way of trying to fix things, as I thought I could probably do a better job. Mick Foley
Me Better Job Thought Took Back Way Boring Better Job Could Through Had He Over Halfway WWE Fix Wall Trying Just Autobiography Against Working Awful Things
My dad always jokes that if I ever write an autobiography, which I'm not going to, it'll be called 'It's Tough in the Middle.' Nicola Walker
Jokes Tough Write Always Going Autobiography Middle Which Dad Ever
There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography. Pamela Stephenson
Point Write May Autobiography Where Decide
When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.' Peter Carey
Character Young Every Easily Would Would-Be Somehow Outraged Reduced Autobiography Upset Fictional Created
I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography. Rick Springfield
Life My Life About Write Songs Wrote Truthful Autobiography Which Painfully Why
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. Roald Dahl
Life Book Own Details Boring About Writes Sort His Person Autobiography Full
It's very important to me I get my autobiography out before I die and someone else writes it and screws up my life. Rob Van Dam
Life Me My Life Important Before Else Out Someone Writes Up Very Get Die Autobiography
Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood. Robert Pinsky
Genre Falsehood Autobiography Notorious
I like inventing things when I write rather than autobiography. Romesh Gunesekera
Rather Inventing Write Like Than Autobiography Things
There is a tendency to presume autobiography in fiction by women or minorities. Guys named Jonathan write universal stories, while there's this sense that everyone else is just fictionalizing their own small experiences. Rumaan Alam
Women Own Sense Else Everyone Everyone Else Presume Minorities Guys Small Tendency Write Jonathan Named Just Autobiography Experiences Fiction Stories While Universal
Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week. Rupert Murdoch
Saying Day Me Writing Try Somebody Hell Seven Months About Recorder More Week Like Couple Talked Said Coming Years Years Ago Tape Tape Recorder End Six Autobiography After Interested Depressed Next
My autobiography was simply the story of my life. Sidney Poitier
Life My Life Simply Autobiography Story
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