Autobiography Quotes

The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.

Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That's what you could say about it.

Let's face it, it's only called Scrubs because I'm saving 'Zach Braff' for my autobiography.

What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening - all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.

..my father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn't understand me. The town he lived in and the town I lived in were not the same.

How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?

If I can do it, anybody can do it. Willpower is strong! I believe that. You just have to have faith in yourself—and God—and make sure you know where your priorities stand.

Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils.

The features of character are carved out of adversity.

But there was no time to rest on my laurels.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your're writing fiction.

Why would any writer in her right mind ever consider making a movie instead? That's like going from being a monk or a nun to serving as a camp counselor for hundreds of problem children.

Watching large mammals living their ordinary life in the jungle is extraordinary

The stares were annoying, but I knew they didn’t mean any harm. So, every morning, smiling at them became part of my routine, too.

Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.

When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans.

I don't need no Smith and Wesson, man, I got Merriam and Webster.

Freedom is difficult…but we have never had to put a wall up to keep the people in.

... A man's wife can hold him devilish uneasy, if she begins to scold and fret, and perplex him, at a time when he has a full load for a railroad car on his mind already.

I never want to make screw-you money like the rest of the financial services industry.

Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding.

Everyone has a home but me.

Life's a book filled on pages Just awaiting to be written.Some don't open it for ages, Maybe afraid of being bitten.

Let us make sure that future generation writes our biography.

I don, t just want success for my self, I want my success to benefit others .Osman Gulum

If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills - than my bowl without a doubt stands upon this memory.

Live your dreams, not your fears! A.Hume

As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir of death.

Advice is autobiography.

I have found out the hard way that the path from victim to victory hinges on one word…Choose.

People ask me where I got my x-ray powers. I inherited them from my parents in parental supervision. Erase the dots and your doubts if you think that I was 'raysed' alone.

Goodness was not a trait you acquired

Anyone with an autobiography is almost definitely an evil piece of shit.

No child should have to see all that I have seen

One day someone is going to read my autobiography and say “Wow, what a horror novel

You can tell it any way you want, he said, you can be I or he or she or we or they or you and you won't be lying, though you might be telling two stories at once.

Periodic Paralysis is not our friend

Do you consider yourself a blessing or just another person?

Aren’t autobiographies born in a question we ask ourselves: how did I get to this point? Don’t we look back over the path and tell ourselves a story? This is how it happened. This is who I am.

Happy 3rd anniversary Navigating Life's Roadways!This book is a charge and blessing from above. Writing it has been on my radar for a while.

Those is seek to profit from the torment of others will eventually pay the piper

Telling our personal story reveals the shape shifting landscape of our mind.

The memoirs of call girls are much in demand these days - a millennial craze.

I could hear my abandoned dreams making a racket in my soul.

You are not yourself in autobiography. It is never going to be you, it is only words on a page. Memories are unreliable, so adding the magic of imagination will make your story come alive.

Audrey Hepburn, as famous as she was, packed her own suitcases... I don’t know why that struck me, but it did. 'She has a servant’s heart, ' I thought.

Mary [Tyler Moore] was absolutely brilliant... She is a fabulous actress. She can do anything.

I loved him with a passion of which I had no idea I was capable. I loved him partly to defend him against the world and partly because I genuinely believed we were soul mates.

None of us understood that the body is a connected thing.