Quotes About Author

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

All substances the cunning chemist Time Melts down into that liquor of my life.

The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.

You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'

The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me.

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.

It's quite a thrill to see it coming to life on stage.

Your weaknesses are not an accident but deliberately allowed, very interesting phrase, deliberately allowed in your life for the purpose of demonstrating His power through you.

I lived in Iowa for pretty much the rest of my life, but I just moved to St. Louis and opened up a gym and MMA training center.

The New York Times credited me with the rediscovery and revival of red velvet cake. I consider this as one of my great life achievements.

I really wasn't very much of a rebel. I'm seen by people now as more of a rebel which is strange. I don't like doing what people tell me to do. I don't deliberately rebel against them.

ATLANTA NIGHTS not only changed my life, it changed my mind. An astonishing read, worth it at half the price.

I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot.

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

I had such a great upbringing in Puerto Rico, and it was just a very normal life.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

I couldn't guarantee that someone could get off their medication. But I suspect that meditation instead of Ritalin would change the life of any kid with ADD.

It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding.

I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.